Laine Lee wrote:

> Here are some examples of asl.log entries that had to be removed before
> DenyHosts could keep running.

Are you using the configuration changes recommended in 
http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/mac_os_10_4.txt (watch out for html mangling 
of 
the text, the < appears as &lt; and the > as &gt;)?

> [Time 2007.05.14 16:32:17 UTC] [Facility local2] [Sender sudo] [PID -1]
> [Message     turindot : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/Users/turindot ; USER=root ;
> COMMAND=/usr/bin/grep failed to auth /var/log/secure.log] [Level 5] [UID -2]
> [GID -2] [Host fledge]
> 
> [Time 2007.05.17 15:35:22 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender diskarbitrationd]
> [PID 57] [Message disk1s10   hfs      7291CDB1-85D9-3925-9983-1ED4FCA418B6
> FWB48                   /Volumes/FWB48] [Level 5] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host
> localhost]
> 
> 
> Here's the error encountered.
> 
> 
> starting DenyHosts:    /usr/bin/env python
> /System/Library/Frameworks/...denyhosts.py --daemon
> --config=/usr/...denyhosts.cfg
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/...denyhosts.py", line 164, in ?
>     first_time, noemail, daemon)
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/...deny_hosts.py", line 82, in __init__
>     offset = self.process_log(logfile, last_offset)
>   File "/System/Library/Frameworks/...deny_hosts.py", line 380, in
> process_log
>     message = sshd_m.group('message')
> IndexError: no such group
> 
> DenyHosts exited abnormally
> 
> 
> Can the secure.log file be monitored rather than the asl.log file in Mac OS
> X Server? I'm asking partly because of the above problem, and partly because
> the secure.log appears to contain IP addresses of attackers that don't seem
> to appear in the asl.log. Thanks.

I don't really know, I have no MacOSX, but from other messages on this list:

>> I think that I have made progress by setting "UsePAM yes" in sshd_config.
...
>> > The corresponding REGEX for denyhosts becomes:
>> > SSHD_FORMAT_REGEX:.* \[Sender sshd\] \[PID \d*\] \[Message .* PAM: 
>> > (?P<message>.*?)\].*?
...
>> additionally setting
>> 
>> UseDNS no
>>
>> in /etc/sshd_config finishes the process yielding this in asl.log:
-- 
René Berber


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