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2011 Jun 22
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Logging failed attempts to correct usernames
...t I don't think the problem is specific to their port ]
For fail2ban purposes I'd like to log failed SSH authentication attempts
of correct (i.e., existing) usernames.
I have no issue with the logging of authn attempts to non-existing
usernames.
I've tried to set LogLevel=VERBOSE and MaxAuthAttempts=1 in sshd_config,
but even then I didn't see /var/log/auth.log entries for failed login
attempts from a third host to an existing username. (I didn't spot any
other relevant knobs in sshd_config(5).)
I assumed I'd see such log entries since the docs of MaxAuthAttempts
state any failed...