Re: console login : number of access failures
daniele pendenza wrote:
Hi lists,
But what about the root user ? That number is "correct" unless no one
tried to do "su logins" (login using the command su).
Do you think that su-logins must be considered as "general logins" and
then the super user must know how many unsuccessful "su-logins" took
place ? And what about the date and time of the last root login ? :-)
Well, as a solution one could forbid the "su-login" but sometimes that
command can be useful.
If you have root access or belong in the 'adm' group, you can peek into
the /var/log/auth.log which contains all the attempts made to get into
the system (both successful and failed)
2 - by default whenever I press CTRL-D to log out as a non root user the
screen is cleaned ... whenever I press CTRL-D to log out as a root user
the screen is not cleaned - and maybe a non root user can see what the
root did before ! Why did they choose this behavior ??
Check out the files .bash_logout in the respective home directories
--
Raj Kiran Grandhi
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