Hi,

on Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:34:31 +0200, Elmar Hoffmann wrote:

> While violations.ignore.d/logcheck-ssh does filter out the warnings
> about failed reverse DNS lookup from the TCP wrappers, it does not for
> ssh's own messages (which are quite overly dramatic, too).
> The attached patch fixes this.

Added another variant of these messages.
Note that I also used the pattern [._[:alnum:]-]+ for the IP address,
instead of a more restrictive one, just like the existing rules in
this file for the TCP wrappers entries do - you might want to tighten
them both.

elmar

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--- /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-ssh.dpkg-dist    2005-10-11 
01:37:46.356925928 +0200
+++ /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-ssh      2005-10-14 
16:33:27.129387970 +0200
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sshd\[[0-9]+\]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, 
line [0-9]+: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo\([._[:alnum:]-]+, AF_INET\) 
failed$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sshd\[[0-9]+\]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, 
line [0-9]+: host name/name mismatch: [._[:alnum:]-]+ != [._[:alnum:]-]+$
+^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sshd\[[0-9]+\]: reverse mapping checking 
getaddrinfo for [._[:alnum:]-]+ failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT!$
+^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sshd\[[0-9]+\]: Address [._[:alnum:]-]+ 
maps to [._[:alnum:]-]+, but this does not map back to the address - POSSIBLE 
BREAKIN ATTEMPT!$

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