[PATCH] log PAM login errors into syslog, not console

Matthew Stoltenberg d3matt at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 23:55:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Ian Wienand <ianw at vmware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Users don't care about these messages, and it breaks the old security
> maxim of not telling an attacker why they weren't able to get in.

Cool, thanks!

> +               syslog(LOG_WARNING, "pam_%s call failed: %s (%d)",

Out of curiosity, will this work with non-busybox syslog if busybox is
statically linked?

Matt


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