CentOS 8 – Show Failed or Bad SSH Login Attempts

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Under CentOS 8 I'm trying to find SSH failed login attempts.
Lastb returns:

# lastb

btmp begins Thu Jul  9 10:53:49 2020

Aureport returns some records (one examples is):

# aureport -au -i --failed 

Authentication Report
============================================
# date time acct host term exe success event
============================================
1. 06/25/2020 13:46:36 root 10.10.0.2 ssh /usr/sbin/sshd no 66

When i try to login with bad credentials aureport or lastb do not show new record. Where can i found failed SSH logins ?

Best Answer

As sshd service managed by systemd, you should look into journal. For example:

$ journalctl -u sshd
 Jul 19 05:24:07 xx-1 sshd[30983]: Received disconnect from 43.254.220.207 port 59846:11: Bye Bye [preauth]
 Jul 19 05:24:07 xx-fsn1-1 sshd[30983]: Disconnected from invalid user ik 43.254.220.207 port 59846 [preauth]
 Jul 19 05:26:25 xx-1 sshd[30986]: Invalid user test from 139.213.220.70 port 62857
 Jul 19 05:26:25 xx-1 sshd[30986]: Received disconnect from 139.213.220.70 port 62857:11: Bye Bye [preauth]
 Jul 19 05:26:25 xx-1 sshd[30986]: Disconnected from invalid user test 139.213.220.70 port 62857 [preauth]

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Ubuntu – SeLinux blocking connection to sshd on Ubuntu 9.10

Probably with semanage. Like:

semanage boolean init_upstart 1

Ssh – How to automate SSH login with password

Don't use a password. Generate a passphrase-less SSH key and push it to your VM.

If you already have an SSH key, you can skip this step… Just hit Enter for the key and both passphrases:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Copy your keys to the target server:

$ ssh-copy-id id@server
id@server's password:

Now try logging into the machine, with ssh 'id@server', and check-in:

.ssh/authorized_keys

Note: If you don't have .ssh dir and authorized_keys file, you need to create it first

to make sure we haven’t added extra keys that you weren’t expecting.

Finally, check to log in…

$ ssh id@server

id@server:~$

You may also want to look into using ssh-agent if you want to try keeping your keys protected with a passphrase.

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