Re: failed login attempts

From: Jason King (jasonk@bham.wednet.edu)
Date: 06/17/02


From: "Jason King" <jasonk@bham.wednet.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:11:31 -0700


I have done this, but how do you setup profiler to return the PC name or IP
address? I have used network monitor and setup a pattern match, which works,
but shouldn't SQL have something easier?? Thanks for any info -Jason
"Richard Waymire [MS]" <rwaymi_ms@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:u9dmqhiFCHA.2088@tkmsftngp02...
> 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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