How do I log {successful|failed} login attempts?

From: Jon Wright <jon.wright_at_ui.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:39:19 -0800

I have a system running DU 4.0 with Enhanced Security. There may or may
not have been unauthorized attempts to login as a particular user. I
would like to be able to log all login attempts, successful or failed.

>From scouring the man pages, it looks like sia might be what I want. But
the man pages say the output of sia is /var/adm/sialog and there is no
sign of that file. And siainit is getting called at system startup.

Also, my understanding is that TCP Wrappers will capture the source of
any login attempts (which is of interest), but not the target account.
Is that correct? Can someone give me a working URL for a TCP Wrappers
for DU? The one I found in the list archives
(ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/security/) seems to be defunct.

Thank you so much,
Jon

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Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 16:38:51 NZDT

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