Package: sshguard
Version: 1.0-2
Severity: important

Hi!

The sshguard manpage states:
,======================================================================
| For interfacing sshguard with syslog, a line like this must be included in
| syslog.conf:
|
|       # copy to sshguard entries with auth and authpriv fac., lev. >= info
|       auth.info;authpriv.info     |/usr/local/sbin/sshguard
`======================================================================

Once you noticed the problem with /local/ and put the line
,======================================================================
| auth.info;authpriv.info     |/usr/sbin/sshguard
`======================================================================
into /etc/syslog.conf, "head /usr/sbin/sshguard" will print:
,======================================================================
| j...@paranoia:~$ head /usr/sbin/sshguard 
| Jan 22 07:45:01 paranoia CRON[18458]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened 
for user joe by (uid=0)
| Jan 22 07:45:01 paranoia CRON[18458]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed 
for user joe
| Jan 22 07:46:01 paranoia CRON[18527]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened 
for user joe by (uid=0)
| Jan 22 07:46:01 paranoia CRON[18527]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed 
for user joe
| Jan 22 07:47:01 paranoia CRON[18595]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened 
for user joe by (uid=0)
| Jan 22 07:47:01 paranoia CRON[18595]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed 
for user joe
| Jan 22 07:48:01 paranoia CRON[18663]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened 
for user joe by (uid=0)
| Jan 22 07:48:01 paranoia CRON[18663]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed 
for user joe
| Jan 22 07:49:01 paranoia CRON[18731]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened 
for user joe by (uid=0)
| Jan 22 07:49:01 paranoia CRON[18731]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed 
for user joe
`======================================================================
Notice that I executed head as normal user, meaning normally confidential
syslog-messages are now readable by anyone.

Bye,
Jö.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sshguard depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

sshguard recommends no packages.

sshguard suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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