[Sunhelp] logging logins on Solaris 7

[Chian-Shan I]

At 02:06 PM 1/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi there.
>
>	I'm trying to figure out how to keep logs of _successful_ logins
>under Solaris 7.  Irix/Linux/SunOS all generate nice syslog() messages on
>successful login, e.g. from Irix 6.5.5:
>
>Jan 10 13:47:43 host.local.domain login[13183]: user at remote as localuser
>
>on Irix.  But the most I've managed to get out of Solaris 7 is this:
>
>Jan 10 14:03:18 host.local.domain login: pam_authenticate: error
>Authentication failed
>
>... and this is only for unsuccesful logins.  It doesn't give username,
>remote host, why the authentication failed, or anything.  Is there any way
>to get more useful information from PAM under Solaris?

First you can use logins command to display user's login status. (man
logins; eg. logins w/ or w/o -s, -t, -u....).
Check /var/adm/loginlog; /var/adm/sulog; /var/adm/pamlog.
You can display five levels of PAM error reporting by adding entries to the
/etc/syslog file.
Rgds, 
Alan I


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