[Dovecot] Audit log?

[Rob Coward]

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, Bjørn 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, Bjørn 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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