On Tue, October 31, 2006 11:03 am, Brian Hawkins wrote: > Good thread by the way. It made me aware of the ongoing attacks against > my own ssh server. > > It was mentioned several times about /var/log/secure. It seemed > significant that ssh was not logging to secure but to messages. On my > machine (Suse 9) I do not have a /var/log/secure file. Please enlighten > me as to this files significants and how it pertains to being hacked? > > Thanks > Brian >
That's not necessarily a bad sign. Some systems don't have the logs split out like that by default. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
