Chapter 10. Resolving Problems and Finding Solutions
This chapter discusses some of the problems most frequently encountered when using Secure Shell and how to report those problems. It also contains information about patches and solutions for commonly asked questions.
Problems
This section contains descriptions of and solutions to the problems most frequently encountered when using Secure Shell.
Server Does Not Produce Log File Output
By default, sshd produces auth.info-level messages. The default configuration of syslogd(1M) ignores these. syslog.conf(4) must have an entry added for these messages. Then, the log file needs to be created, and syslogd needs a HUP signal, as in the following example.
# grep auth.info /etc/syslog.conf auth.info /var/adm/sshd.log ... |
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