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Re: Viewing login failures under OS X

From Alan Baker <email@domain.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Viewing login failures under OS X
Date 2015-05-12 11:48 -0700
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On 2015-05-12 18:46:58 +0000, awoolmeyer@gmail.com said:

> On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 2:11:01 PM UTC-4, Alan Baker wrote:
>> On 2015-05-08 03:48:34 +0000, JF Mezei said:
>> 
>>> On 15-05-07 23:39, User Bp wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Nothing referring to ssh or sftp, so I guess all is good. The date
>>>> given is about the time I upgraded some software,
>>>> but there didn't seem to be any problem with the upgrade.
>>> 
>>> Try to login with wrong password at a specific known time and then
>>> search the logs for it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> the file /etc/syslog.conf can give you hints on which messages go to
>>> which files, and you can then do greps on those files.
>> 
>> With later versions of the OS, most messages end up in the Spotlight
>> searchable "All messages" (in fact, you can set up a permanent query
>> for it: "sender contains authorizationhost", and I did precisely what
>> you said:
>> 
>> 5/6/15 8:04:19.433 PM authorizationhost[26050]: Failed to authenticate
>> user <usernameRedacted> (error: 9).
>> 
>> That won't catch ssh logins, but you can set up a query that looks for:
>> 
>> [ sender = "authorizationhost" OR sender = "sshd" ]
>> 
>> And that will cover both cases.
> 
> 
> WOW!!!  Windows actually copied that shit???

What are you blathering about, fish?

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Viewing login failures under OS X User Bp <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2015-05-07 02:45 +0000
  Re: Viewing login failures under OS X Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-06 20:06 -0700
    Re: Viewing login failures under OS X User Bp <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2015-05-08 03:39 +0000
      Re: Viewing login failures under OS X JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-07 23:48 -0400
        Re: Viewing login failures under OS X Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-10 11:10 -0700
          Re: Viewing login failures under OS X awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-05-12 11:46 -0700
            Re: Viewing login failures under OS X Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-12 11:48 -0700
  Re: Viewing login failures under OS X David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-05-07 11:44 -0500

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