On Mon, May 29, Jarno Huuskonen wrote:
> Hi !
>
> While browsing Linux manpages (man 3 syslog) I noticed that the manual
> says that the LOG_AUTH facility is deprecated use LOG_AUTHPRIV instead.
>
> Is there a good reason why OpenSSH doesn't have an option to use
> LOG_AUTHPRIV facility ? (Looks like that tcpd/telnet etc. use the AUTHPRIV
> facility (in RH6.2)).
>
> Shouldn't be too hard to add the AUTH_PRIV facility ?
Replying to myself ;-)
I hacked together a small patch that adds the LOG_AUTHPRIV option to sshd.
I tested it briefly and it worked for me ;-)
diff -u openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/log-server.c openssh-2.1.0p2/log-server.c
--- openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/log-server.c Tue May 2 02:56:42 2000
+++ openssh-2.1.0p2/log-server.c Mon May 29 19:17:22 2000
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@
case SYSLOG_FACILITY_AUTH:
log_facility = LOG_AUTH;
break;
+ case SYSLOG_FACILITY_AUTHPRIV:
+ log_facility = LOG_AUTHPRIV;
+ break;
case SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL0:
log_facility = LOG_LOCAL0;
break;
diff -u openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/log.c openssh-2.1.0p2/log.c
--- openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/log.c Fri Jan 14 06:45:50 2000
+++ openssh-2.1.0p2/log.c Mon May 29 19:17:22 2000
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
{ "DAEMON", SYSLOG_FACILITY_DAEMON },
{ "USER", SYSLOG_FACILITY_USER },
{ "AUTH", SYSLOG_FACILITY_AUTH },
+ { "AUTHPRIV", SYSLOG_FACILITY_AUTHPRIV },
{ "LOCAL0", SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL0 },
{ "LOCAL1", SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL1 },
{ "LOCAL2", SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL2 },
diff -u openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/ssh.h openssh-2.1.0p2/ssh.h
--- openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/ssh.h Wed May 17 15:34:24 2000
+++ openssh-2.1.0p2/ssh.h Mon May 29 19:17:26 2000
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@
SYSLOG_FACILITY_DAEMON,
SYSLOG_FACILITY_USER,
SYSLOG_FACILITY_AUTH,
+ SYSLOG_FACILITY_AUTHPRIV,
SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL0,
SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL1,
SYSLOG_FACILITY_LOCAL2,
diff -u openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/sshd.8 openssh-2.1.0p2/sshd.8
--- openssh-2.1.0p2-orig/sshd.8 Tue May 9 04:03:03 2000
+++ openssh-2.1.0p2/sshd.8 Mon May 29 19:19:13 2000
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@
.It Cm SyslogFacility
Gives the facility code that is used when logging messages from
.Nm sshd .
-The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2,
+The possible values are: DAEMON, USER, AUTH, AUTHPRIV, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2,
LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7.
The default is AUTH.
.It Cm UseLogin
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