Yes, it contains the names of valid users (/etc/passwd users) that someone attempted to login as using an incorrect password.
If you ssh into one as yourself (or some other user from /etc/passwd) and provide an incorrect password they would show up in users-valid. Regards, Phil On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Marconi wrote: > From: <http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html> > > > users-valid - a summary of all existing usernames (including 'root') > that attempts to login to your sshd server. The file also contains > the number of attempts per usernames and the most recent timestamp. > > Am I correct that this file contains the names of valid users who > were *unsuccessful* at logging in? > > Since I have ssh'd to the target machine as two different users and > those user names are not listed in users-valid... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
