On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Kat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok this one has me stumped and I am not sure it can be done.
>
> I have a dozen or so accounts using ssh keys. Pretty normal. I want to
> set an alert only if one of these accounts suddenly starts asking for
> a password? Any ideas?


ssh reports differently for the two cases:
Nov 27 23:09:45 wasp sshd[8999]: Accepted password for wakka from
127.0.0.1 port 33008 ssh2
Nov 27 23:39:37 wasp sshd[6929]: Accepted publickey for wakka from
127.0.0.1 port 47951 ssh2

so I'm pretty sure it can be done.

You could trigger for "Accepted password" with a higher alert level.
Or you can get fancy and fulfill your second requirement - by grouping
on the user names that are only logging in thru ssh keys.

0k

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