Re: Logging attempted passwords

From: David Vestal (dv_secfocus_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 10/21/04

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:57:59 -0700

    On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:26 pm, mike@genxweb.net wrote:
    > David,
    > I may be missunderstanding you but I believe sshd already does. If you do a
    > cat on the /var/log/secure it has info of failed login attempts, the
    > account they tried and the time. You cna easily use some awk and grep with
    > a cron job to pull that info to a seperate log if you want.
    >
    > Quoting David Vestal <dv_secfocus@sbcglobal.net>:
    > > Is it possible to have sshd log the passwords and times of failed logins?
    > > If so how to I need to change my config to do so?
    > >
    > > I am running OpenSSH 3.5p1 on a linux server.
    > >
    > > David

    Mike,
    You are correct, it does already log the account and time and those I already
    have. But I would also like to have the password that was tried, if it is
    possible.

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