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logging of SSH login failures
Authored by: ccase on Oct 16, '05 11:43:13PM

Both failed user names and failed passwords are logged. To see that, you have to be using password authentication.

What you are doing is using a public key with a passphrase. That is failing on the client side, not the server side, so there is nothing to log.

To see this, rename the directory with the public key (mv .ssh .ssh.save). Then try logging in. You'll be asked for a password. If you type in non-sense a few times, then login will fail, and a log entry will be generated.



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