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Re: Viewing login failures under OS X

Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Date 2015-05-12 11:46 -0700
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Subject Re: Viewing login failures under OS X
From awoolmeyer@gmail.com

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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???

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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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