request: add IP address to a log message to allow blocking

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On Tue 2016-03-29 18:10:00 -0400, Damien Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, IMAP List Administration wrote:
> >> If you haven't already, an you please add the IP address to this message, and
> >> any similar messages?  I'm using version 6.7p1.
> >
> > I actually added that recently. It will be in openssh-7.3, due in a
> > couple of months.
> 
> Will it be configurable?  There are situations where people actively
> don't want to have any IP addresses logged for legal reasons, and
> ideally it would be easy to get diagnostics without risks of IP
> addresses being written to log storage.

No, it won't be configurable. We've always logged IP addresses in some
circumstances, we're just being more consistent in doing so. Anyone who
has had special requirements around log privacy should have implemented
filtering years ago.

-d