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Re: /etc/securetty and login failure logging



Package: login
Severity: important

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:06:27PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote:
> 
> I commented out most lines from /etc/securetty so that root is only
> allowed to login from tty3. Now I see the following messages when root
> tries to login from any other terminals:
> 
> Jan  3 15:46:55 phoenix login[25646]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR root, Authentication failure
> Jan  3 15:47:13 phoenix login[25646]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM  FOR root, Authentication failure
> Jan  3 15:47:37 phoenix login[195]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR root, Authentication failure
> Jan  3 16:01:14 phoenix login[198]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM  FOR root,
> Authentication failure
> 
> But these messages (from /var/log/auth.log) don't indicate which
> terminal was used for the login attempt. Is there any way that
> information can also be logged in /var/log/auth.log ?

Looks like a bug, I've sent it to the BTS. I should get around to fixing
it soon.

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