topic Re: ssh and syslog in Operating System - HP-UX

ssh and syslog

Tim Killinger — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:22:11 GMT

We've recently installed ssh and have disabled telnet for security purposes. I've noticed that we are now seeing large quantities of informational SSH connection messages being written to syslog now that we are connecting thru SSH. Can anyone tell me how to disable all this SSH syslog logging activity?

Thanks!

Re: ssh and syslog

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:27:26 GMT

Hi Tim,

Couple of options to use with the sshd daemon:

-e sends output to std error instead of syslog
-q is quiet mode & will send nothing to syslog

HTH,
Jeff

Re: ssh and syslog

Rick Garland — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:30:13 GMT

Check the sshd_config file for configuration options. There are many options there

Re: ssh and syslog

renarios — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:42:44 GMT

Hi tim,

Try man syslogd or maybe this url helps:
http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/INSTALL.txt

Cheers,

Renarios

Re: ssh and syslog

HGN — Tue, 03 May 2005 08:52:10 GMT

Hi

The sshd2_config file has the options to redirect the log files.
man ssh shows many options
ssh -o ...(some of the optins are ForwardAgent
ForwardX11
ForwardX11Trusted)
these can be changed in the sshd_config file located in /opt/ssh/etc
After all the changes you need to restart the sshd to make these changes effective.

Hope this helps

Rgds

HGN

Re: ssh and syslog

Tim Killinger — Tue, 03 May 2005 09:46:51 GMT

Thanks all... uncommenting the following option in /etc/ssh2/sshd2_config did the trick:

# VerboseMode no
QuietMode yes