Re: Logging passwords of SSH attacks

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

2009/1/18 Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>:
>> > people
>> > often confuse which password they have to enter where, and thus
>> > valid passwords would wander into the logs for malicous people to
>> > collect and use at other sites.
>>
>> auth.log is only readable to sysadmins.
>>
> <sarcasm> oh what a wonderful world </sarcasm>
>
> The only way to prevent misuse of such information is to _not_ _log_
> _it_.
>

Naturally, I would not log invalid password attempts on a machine to
which valid users log into remotely. But if I am being attacked, then
I would like to log that info. Maybe they know my password and not my
username? Or an older password? It is entirely possible, as I change
the username each time I install but not always the password.

> If you really need to satisfy your curiosity hack the sources or look
> at 'john' or something like that.
>

Thanks, I will google "john".

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