Package: login Severity: important On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:06:27PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > I commented out most lines from /etc/securetty so that root is only > allowed to login from tty3. Now I see the following messages when root > tries to login from any other terminals: > > Jan 3 15:46:55 phoenix login[25646]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM FOR root, > Authentication failure > Jan 3 15:47:13 phoenix login[25646]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM FOR root, > Authentication failure > Jan 3 15:47:37 phoenix login[195]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM FOR root, > Authentication failure > Jan 3 16:01:14 phoenix login[198]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM FOR root, > Authentication failure > > But these messages (from /var/log/auth.log) don't indicate which > terminal was used for the login attempt. Is there any way that > information can also be logged in /var/log/auth.log ?
Looks like a bug, I've sent it to the BTS. I should get around to fixing it soon. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'