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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:02:25 -0600
From:      Noel Jones <noeldude@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to have sshd log IP numbers instead of reverse lookups
Message-ID:  <cce506b0511271602p7d0c96u8994bc8489d7ba2d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051125035711.GA58357@ns.museum.rain.com>
References:  <20051125035711.GA58357@ns.museum.rain.com>

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On 11/24/05, James Long <list@museum.rain.com> wrote:
> I was looking at /var/log/auth.log and saw an entry of the form:
>
> Nov 24 18:41:37 ns sshd[58083]: error: PAM: authentication error for user=
name from example.com
>
> I wish to have an IP number logged where sshd has instead logged
> 'example.com'
>
> Reading sshd's man page and sshd_config's man page, I don't find any
> way to control this.
>
> Since 'example.com' could have multiple IP numbers, how can I change
> sshd's configuration to log the IP number from whence the
> authentication error originated?
>
>

I believe adding
UseDNS no
to sshd_config will do what you want.

--
Noel Jones



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