openssh-5.0p1: sftp transfer logging doesn't appear to work with chroot environment

[Peter Stuge]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:30:29AM -0700, john wrote:
> >  What exact steps have you taken to accomplish what Damien proposed?
> 
> Yes sorry Dan, I should have been specific.
> 
> I created a file in my chroot root called /home/dev/auth.log
> 
> Then I edited syslogd to write auth log to that location and
> restarted syslogd.

Aha. No, it has to be the other way around.

Create a /home/dev/log pipe/socket and make syslogd listen there in
addition to the regular /dev/log


> I commented out my chroot in sshd_config and confirmed that sftp
> file transactions were being logged in /home/dev/auth.log

The log file itself can and should probably not be inside the chroot.


//Peter