On Sun, Jan 24, Phil Beckley wrote: > Maybe a little background would help here. I'm working on a log watcher (of > sorts) for failed SSH logins, only, I'm looking at registered users > exclusively. Auth.log seems too cumbersome to watch and extract out > registered users if a distributed attack occurs. So, I wanted to use > tallylog to see how many failed attempts have occurred for registered users > and use a script from there to take action. What do you think? pam_tally2 does not write a log file, this is more or less a database. If pam_tally2 takes any actions, it logs it via syslog, too. But writing the database as ascii doesn't make any sense and does not help you. Either you let pam_tally2 lock the account if too many failed logins appear, or pam_tally2 is the wrong module for you. Thorsten > On Jan 23, 2016 6:22 PM, "Paul Whitney" <paul.whitney@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Re #1. Maybe what you are looking for is to parse output of command > > 'lastb'. > > > > Re #2. There is lots of Google references to PAM. > > > > Paul Whitney > > email: paul.whitney@xxxxxxx > > cell: 410.493.9448 > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Jan 23, 2016, at 16:18, Phil Beckley <phil.beckley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've been looking for documentation and in forums, but I'm not having > > any luck getting more information on the items in the subject. I have a > > couple of questions and please let me know if this isn't the right place to > > address these questions. > > > > > > 1. Why is tallylog a binary file? I would love to parse it like a log, > > but that seems like a difficult task. > > > 2. Is there a more in-depth description/explanation of how to modify the > > pam conf files? I was looking at the PAM SA guide, but was unable to make > > sense of a lot of it as I don't have a background in PAM, as a whole. > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > > > > > P > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pam-list mailing list > > > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list mailing list > > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Pam-list mailing list > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list -- Thorsten Kukuk, Senior Architect SLES & Common Code Base SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
