Since i/we didn't receive any answer on secureshell at securityfocus.com I like to ask this question to you. What's your opinion on this topic? Thanks! Miro +-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+ | Miro Dietiker | | MD Systems Miro Dietiker | +-------------------------------+ +-------------------------------+ -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: user [mailto:user at dhp.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 11. Dezember 2005 22:31 An: secureshell at securityfocus.com Betreff: OpenSSH traffic accounting ... There exist patches for OpenSSH that allow it to perform per user traffic accounting. Further, new releases increasingly are being met with the "it still doesn't do per user traffic accounting ?" comment. ( http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161168&cid=13488466 ) Can someone tell me why this is not implemented ? Is it a philosophical question, or is it just low priority ? Perhaps the patches just weren't good ones and nobody wants to redo them ? All comments appreciated. -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Miro Dietiker, MD Systems [mailto:info at md-systems.ch] Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 10:55 An: 'user'; secureshell at securityfocus.com Betreff: AW: OpenSSH traffic accounting ... This topic is also very important to me and I wanted to ask for it... For commercial usage/applications this would be a prerequisite. Would be great to have this feature :-)
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:34:05PM +0100, Miro Dietiker, MD Systems wrote:> There exist patches for OpenSSH that allow it to perform per user > traffic > accounting. > > Further, new releases increasingly are being met with the "it still > doesn't do per user traffic accounting ?" comment. > > ( http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161168&cid=13488466 ) > > Can someone tell me why this is not implemented ? Is it a philosophical > question, or is it just low priority ? Perhaps the patches just weren't > good ones and nobody wants to redo them ? > > All comments appreciated.On this topic, I recently updated my accounting patches to apply to 4.2p1: http://caesious.beasts.org/~chris/tmp/20051220/openssh-4.2p1-server-accounting.patch Many thanks to John Kozubik, who paid for this work. I don't know if there's any chance of that making it into the distribution; the patch is a little ugly, but I couldn't see a more attractive way to write the thing. Any comments? -- ``I can't find the [Latin] translation for `responsibility', which might explain a lot of Roman history....'' (Gareth Wilson)