Hi Derek,

Thanks for the reply.  I did look extensively through the documentation
files that came with my installation of RSSH, and I also checked the
website FAQ before I sent out this email, but I wasn't able to find
anything relating to logging or setting up the jail to make sure logging
is set up appropriately.  Could you please point me in the right
direction as to where to look for this information?

A bit more information about my setup:

The sftp subsystem is set up to log to /var/log/sftpd.  The logging
ssystem im using is metalog.  As I mentioned earlier, logging does work
correctly for users who have bash as their shell, but any restricted ftp
users who log in and have rssh started for them, don't produce any logs.
After suggestions from other people, I tried making a /var/log/sftpd
directory in the jail, but this had no effect.

As you mentioned "As long as your chroot jail is configured properly so
that logging works *when using chroot jails*, there's nothing else to
do.", this seems to be my issue.

Thanks,

Marc

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 1:48 AM
To: Marc Racette
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: RSSH logging


On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:35:54PM -0400, Marc Racette wrote:
> I have been trying to determine a method by which user sftp sessions 
> can be logged.  I have successfully implemented logging of the 
> sftp-server service, and this seems to work fine when a user's shell 
> is bash.

As long as your chroot jail is configured properly so that logging works
*when using chroot jails*, there's nothing else to do.  Logging of sftp
is handled entirely by sftp, so if you managed to implement that, and
your jail is set up correctly, logging should just work. There's truly
nothing magical about rssh's logging, and it should in no way affect
sftp's logging, though if your jail is not configured properly, the
syslog libraries will not be able to write to the syslog (because the
socket it needs is not inside the jail).

The rssh docs do describe in great detail how to set up logging properly
inside chroot jails *on Linux*... if you're using some other OS, the
same idea applies, but you'll need to read your syslog documentation for
specific details.  On some platforms, it may not be possible at all.

HTH

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D



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