Re: Missing auth.log

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 01:43:17AM +0100, Maxe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of our systems, running ARCH Linux, was compromised (a non-privileged
> account, fortunately). But, we could not find /var/log/auth.log or similar
> for investigation. Does the journal keep track of login attempts? It seems
> that ARCH does not run [r]syslogd.

If you want authpriv messages, then run "journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=10". See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syslog#Facility for mapping between numerical and
mnemonic facility IDs. Oh, and do install syslog-ng :)

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev



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