[Dovecot] Audit log?

[Bjørn T Johansen]

Yes, but that doesn't work for sql auth; as you see, the line logged is different...

BTJ

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:32:01 +0000
Rob Coward <rob.coward at game.co.uk> wrote:

> I use pam authentication in dovecot and the following fail2ban filter
> seems to work fine for me:
> 
> failregex = auth\(default\): pam\(.*,<HOST>\): pam_authenticate\(\)
> failed:
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:04 +0100, Bj__rn T Johansen wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:42:01 +0200
> > Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:18 +0100, Bj__rn T Johansen wrote:
> > > > Yes, I know about those but I was kind of hoping to see failed authentications in some logs without
> > > > enabling debug logging, like if I use PAM authentication....
> > > 
> > > auth_verbose=yes enables logging failed logins.
> > > 
> > 
> > That did the trick... thx... :)
> > 
> > If I only had learned regexp like I have been meaning too for many years now, this would have been a piece of
> > cake but...
> > 
> > Does anyone use Dovecot together with fail2ban? If so, could any one share the failregex they are using? (A)
> > (or perhaps someone could create a regexp that recognize a line like this:
> > 
> > dovecot: Dec 21 11:58:07 Info: auth(default): sql(btj at havleik.no,85.19.143.23): Password mismatch
> > 
> > )
> > 
> > 
> > BTJ
> 
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