On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Atom Powers wrote:

> I would argue that is isn't the cracking attempts that you should be
> monitoring. Is is the cracking successes. Have there been any unusual
> logins?

Atom,

   No, never. This is why I want to see the sshd log entries from
/var/log/messages summarized by logwatch.

> Honestly, failed attempts are meaningless (unless it is a DDOS, and then
> monitoring them only exacerbates the problem); the successful logins are
> interesting.

   I've never had a successful login from anyone but me and a colleague who
worked on a project with me.

Thanks,

Rich
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