sshd double-logging

Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 07:13:05 EST 2006


On Feb 13 06:37, Darren Tucker wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:10:04PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Thanks for the patch, but...  instead of two, I now have three messages
> > > in the syslog:
> > > 
> > > Feb 12 13:51:19 cathi sshd: PID 3796: Failed none for corinna from 192.168.129.6 port 41585 ssh2 
> > > Feb 12 13:51:19 cathi sshd: PID 1692: Postponed publickey for corinna from 192.168.129.6 port 41585 ssh2 
> > > Feb 12 13:51:19 cathi sshd: PID 3796: Accepted publickey for corinna from 192.168.129.6 port 41585 ssh
> 
> No, that's okay.  There's 3 messages but they're different (no dupes).
> 
> If you comment out the line marked "XXX for testing only" then it should
> behave as you are used to.  (Normally, most failed auth attempts are
> logged only with a severity of "verbose" until MaxAuthTries/2 attempts
> have been made to cut down on the noise.  I disabled that for the purposes
> of testing.)

Uh, ok.  I disabled this line and it behaves as expected now...

> 
> > > This is identical with and without privsep.
> 
> Excellent, that's the idea :-)

... also with and without privsep. :-)

Do you think it's ok to use this patch for the official Cygwin net distro
release of 4.3p2?


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat




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