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telnetd logging

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A5k

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Jul 29, 2001
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hi all,
I was wondering if Redhat 7.3 installs with logging enabled for telnetd. If so, where is the log file? If not, how would I go about logging all telnet attempts?

thanks,
-a5k
 

I'm pretty sure all login attempts should be in /var/log/messages provided you have an entry like

*.info /var/log/messages

in syslog.conf

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
 
Trevor,
are you sure that would log failed attempts?? The super server can't tell if you enter an incorrect password.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
 
thanks for the replies...what i was looking for was in /var/log/messages. I believe that I also read somewhere that failed login attempts only gets logged after 5 failed tries. Is there a way to change this value, say to 2 or 3?

-a5k
 

Failed login attempts are always logged. Maybe you read that the account gets locked after a number of attempts.

Can't remember exactly where that is but look around in /etc or check 'man login'.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
 
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