daily system wide sysadmin reports

Charlie Kravetz cjk at teamcharliesangels.com
Wed May 6 13:28:54 UTC 2009


On Wed, 06 May 2009 06:12:08 -0700
Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> is there a decent piece of software out there that performs daily and 
> system wide sysadmin reports of failed password attempts, irregular
> file permissions, and other helpful security data.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Noah
> 

I don't know software that well, but I look in /var/log/auth.log for
that information. Being a plain text file, you can read it using any
text editor or use "pager /var/log/auth.log" in a terminal.

good luck,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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