Cannot get sftp transfers to log in the systemd journal

[Jakub Jelen]

On 05/10/2016 02:19 PM, John wrote:
>
>> There are two possibilities. Either you set up logging socket in chroot
>> and set up syslog/journal to receive message from it, or there is some
>> possibility to log over the socket opened by the parent (before going
>> into chroot), which is a bit hacky solution (and not upstream for some
>> reason). We have got the patch in our git [1], but there will probably
>> be some bug in upstream bugzilla.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/openssh.git/tree/openssh-6.6.1p1-log-in-chroot.patch
>>
>> Regards,
> Thanks for the reply, Jakub.  The patch you pointed me to does not apply to the current release of openssh unfortunately (v7.2p2).  Do you have a more contemporary version of the patch I can try?
It applies, but there are also other conflicting patches in Fedora 
probably. We use exactly this one for openssh-7.2
> I can google around for a logging socket... I assume this can be implemented without the patch you referenced and on the current version 7.2p2?
Yes. The logging socket in chroot solution should work without the above 
patch.

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Jakub Jelen
Associate Software Engineer
Security Technologies
Red Hat