Re: PATCH for sshd & man apge

"Jason Pyeron" <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:14:09 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.log.logwatch.devel
Organization PD Inc
Message-ID <AEC0EF6C54994290959A56B2BAADD2A9@black7>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Lehenbauer 
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2017 13:02
> 
> Hi did this patch make it through to anyone back in 
> September? I guess the html in the initial message caused an 
> issue, so in plain text here's what I had said:
> 
> I've noticed that I get a lot of "Unmatched Entries" for 
> repeated password failures from sshd, e.g.
> 
> 
> 
> message repeated 2 times: [ Failed password for root from 
> x.x.x.x port x ssh2] : 1 time(s)
> 
> 
> Attached patch pulls out the '2 times' and increments the 
> failed attempts for the report, and removes these unmatched entries.
> 
> This is a really big cleanup for me and hopefully will help 
> others. I've also added some options to the man page that are 
> listed in the synopsis and in --usage but spelled out in the 
> body of the man page.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:23 AM Adam Lehenbauer 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Hello, I've noticed that I get a lot of "Unmatched 
> Entries" for repeated password failures from sshd, e.g.
> 
> message repeated 2 times: [ Failed password for root from 
> x.x.x.x port x ssh2] : 1 time(s)	
> 
> 	Attached patch pulls out the '2 times' and increments 
> the failed attempts for the report, and removes these 
> unmatched entries.
> 
> 	This is a really big cleanup for me and hopefully will 
> help others. I've also added some options to the man page 
> that are listed in the synopsis and in --usage but spelled 
> out in the body of the man page.
> 
> 	-Adam
> 
> 


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