[5432] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena 9.4.26 patch release Monday March 27 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Mar 21 14:20:42 2006
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Igor A Sylvester <ias@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:20:13 -0500
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On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:16 -0500, Igor A Sylvester wrote:
> "sshd doesn't log failed login attempts to the console."
>
> i find this functionality quite useful to detect attacks on my machine
> (which has happened before).
Enough people complained about the console spam from such attacks that
we decided to quiet it down. Most of the time the attack isn't going to
succeed (it's just trying a bunch of common username/password pairs
which won't be present on an Athena machine) and there isn't much to be
done about it.
