My guide to fascist syslogging (or how I caught the internet worm)

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Dec 1 03:00:27 AEST 1988


In article <1326 at helios.ee.lbl.gov> leres at helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes:
>	/bin/login... Add a syslog() anywhere a user fails to login
>	normally. Possibilities include:
>
>	    - logins are disabled
>	    - no such user	...

But be careful that your logs are secure.  It is a verifiable fact that
people sometimes type passwords instead of login names, due to slow response
or confusion or etc.
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