Hi,

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:03:41AM +0400, Sergey Urushkin wrote:
> we're using openvpn server with auth-pam plugin. When user fails to
> authenticate we get the message to all terminals on the server:
> AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: user 'username' failed to authenticate:
> Authentication failure

I assume that the auth-pam plugin is syslogging this, and someone has
setup /etc/syslog.conf to log all "auth failed!!" messages to "*"
("send to all users!").

gert
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