Remote-Port

Darren Tucker
Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:02:48 -0000

Veiel Uwe wrote:
> for security logging purposes, I would like to record the
 > actual remote port an ssh connection uses after the connection
 > has been established. Could someone kindly point me to the part
 > of the ssh client source code where such information
is
> available?

You mean the other end of the TCP connection to the server's port 22?
That is already logged to wherever syslog is configured to go to (see
LogLevel and SysLogFacility in "man sshd_config"), eg:

Dec 13 00:18:52 gate sshd[12258]: Accepted password for dtucker from
192.168.1.1 port 54496 ssh2

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