Logcheck devel - Jan 2009 - Bug#510472: logcheck-database: pam_unix messages could be ignored.

Package: logcheck-database
Version: 1.2.68
Severity: normal

I'm using ldap to authenticate users. And thus pam_unix is sufficient, but
allowed to fail. It has now started to spam the logs with lots of
Jan  2 09:22:57 sisko sshd[28511]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser=
rhost=host92-22-static.38-79-b.business.telecomitalia.it  user=root
And on another system the same is happening for imapd.

For a few weeks now I've added the below to the logcheck database to filter
all those extra messages.
It appears to have changed from a previous one, although I haven't bothered
to look at the differences.

^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ [[:alnum:]]+\[[0-9]+\]:
pam_unix\([[:alnum:]]+:auth\): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0
tty= ruser= rhost=[\.0-9]+  user=[^[:space:]]+$


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-7-server (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- debconf information:
  logcheck-database/standard-rename-note:
  logcheck-database/conffile-cleanup: false

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:21:51AM +0100, Jan Evert van Grootheest
wrote:
> Package: logcheck-database
> Version: 1.2.68
> 
> It has now started to spam the logs with lots of
> Jan  2 09:22:57 sisko sshd[28511]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication
failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser=
rhost=host92-22-static.38-79-b.business.telecomitalia.it  user=root
This is a duplicate of #444470, which was fixed a while ago.  (The fix
was actually part of 1.2.64, so I'm assuming you filed this report from
a different machine.)
> And on another system the same is happening for imapd.
Are we talking about cyrus-imapd-2.2?  Could you provide an example?


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