Re: lost ssh access - where is a log?

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Samuel,

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > It is one year old.
> ? No, it's 2 days old. See the workaround he posted there.

Sorry, I was somehow misled, I don't know. Not accustomed to 
microblogging I gues.

I see the several hacks about accessing /dev/urandom as well as having 
comments about arc4random


> > On Devuan, which is systemd-less, I have ssh logs found in : auth.log
> >
> > So I guess we can have on HURD too. Of all the ssh issues, having logs is
> > important, I apparently miss most logs when lloking in /var/log
> Do you have inetutils-syslogd running?

no I did not have! darn! that was it, just installed... and now I have 
auth.log and I also get an error message, which shows a pam issue, in my 
opinion:

Nov 30 19:47:07 osgiliath runuser: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_keyinit.so): 
/lib/security/pam_keyinit.so: cannot open shared object file: No such 
file or directory
Nov 30 19:47:07 osgiliath runuser: PAM adding faulty module: pam_keyinit.so
Nov 30 19:47:07 osgiliath runuser: pam_unix(runuser:session): session 
opened for user man(uid=6) by (uid=0)
Nov 30 19:47:09 osgiliath runuser: pam_unix(runuser:session): session 
closed for user man
Nov 30 19:52:00 osgiliath sshd[707]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Nov 30 19:52:00 osgiliath sshd[707]: Server listening on :: port 22.

however, no log is appended when attempting failing ssh logins.

Riccardo