Bug 202055

Summary: [ssh] [patch] Extra IP number information for failed (anonymous) connects
Product: Base System Reporter: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw>
Component: binAssignee: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: des
Priority: --- Keywords: patch
Version: CURRENT   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Willem Jan Withagen 2015-08-03 08:32:13 UTC
Created attachment 159484 [details]
log ip-numbers for failed socket connect attempts

Running ssh, logfiles are swamped with lines like:
fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer [preauth]

Which is rather useless for tools like sshguard and/or fail2ban

But this patch changes this info to:
Aug  2 19:37:32 zfs sshd[19444]: Read from socket failed: 218.2.22.36 [preauth]
Aug  2 19:37:32 zfs sshd[19444]:fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer [preauth]

I decided to keep the older log line as well, to keep consistent what was there already. I do not know if any logfile analysers care about this line.

Thus giving other tools to opportunity to act on (now) known abuse ip-numbers.

--WjW

PS: not sure if the patch goes to FreeBSd, or perhaps upstream to openssh?