Hi there,
I am running a pretty vanilla Debian 8.7 installation and noticed any failed sshd logins are not showing up in /var/log/auth.log. I have tried restarting sshd as well as rsyslogd, but no luck.
Anyone else have this problem? I have heard from a friend that knows a lot about computers that it is impossible to troubleshoot this kind of thing on linux and I am probably better off reinstalling. Any advice highly appreciated!
Mark
Edit: I found the solution by simply uninstalling rsyslogd and installing syslog-ng instead. Now logging works just fine. I'd still be curious to know what was causing this, rsyslogd was running as root as per ps, so it wasn't a permission problem.
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failed ssh login attempts not logged by rsyslog
Re: failed ssh login attempts not logged by rsyslog
awayand wrote:I have heard from a friend that knows a lot about computers that it is impossible to troubleshoot this kind of thing on linux and I am probably better off reinstalling.
I guess your friend doesn't know that much after all.awayand wrote:Edit: I found the solution by simply uninstalling rsyslogd and installing syslog-ng instead. Now logging works just fine.
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