how to log sshd access in a single file

Rick Miller vmiller at hostileadmin.com
Mon Sep 16 14:37:40 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:36 AM, aurikus grande <aurikus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just a few days ago i setup my first FreeBSD server, so i am new to this
> OS.
>
> I already tried to find the information i was looking for, but to no luck.
>
> I try to add a line in /etc/hosts.allow which would allow and log all
> attempts using SSH (sshd).


[ snip ]

I would recommend using the auth and authpriv facilities for syslog.  Check
the syslog.conf manpage for configuring such activity.  I believe FreeBSD
defaults to failed ssh authentication is logged to /var/log/messages while
successful authentication is written to /var/log/auth.log.

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Take care
Rick Miller


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