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Secure Shell in the Enterprise
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Secure Shell in the Enterprise

by Jason Reid
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
3h 24m
English
Pearson
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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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