Re: failed login attempts

From: Richard Waymire [MS] (rwaymi_ms@microsoft.com)
Date: 06/17/02 

From: "Richard Waymire [MS]" <rwaymi_ms@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 10:57:59 -0700

Why do you say that? You can indeed turn on failed login auditing via a
simple checkbox in Enterprise Manager, and they will be logged to the
Windows Event viewer. You can also capture this information with Profiler. 

--
Richard Waymire, MCSE, MCDBA
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"jimmers" <jimmers@yandex.ru> wrote in message
news:OiQvazKFCHA.1424@tkmsftngp04...
> Good day,
>
> Jason, Microsoft SQL Server doesn't have built-in failed logins auditing
> capability. This is sad because some other databases have such ability (to
> log IP, time etc).
> I can suggest to monitor network traffic coming to SQL Server and going
from
> it for (failed) login sequence signatures but this will work for
unencrypted
> connections only. For example, one may use Network Monitor that comes with
> Windows 2000 Advanced Server to capture traffic and analyze it later to
> figure out IP of an attacker.
>
>
>
> P.S. I hope next release of award-winning RDBMS will include full auditing
> support, including failed login attempts.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin Rakhmanoff (jimmers)
>
>
>
>
>
> "Jason King" <jasonk@bham.wednet.edu> wrote in message
> news:e3Xs3y7ECHA.2076@tkmsftngp04...
> > Hello all. I am seeing some failed login attempts on our SQL servers. Is
> > there a way SQL Profiler will tell me the IP or Name of the PC that was
> > connected? Or any other suggestions to track IP addresses? I am using
SQL
> > 7.0.
> >
> > TIA - Jason
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

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