log failed plaintext password for specific user only

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Wed Mar 23 11:29:11 UTC 2022


> On 23/03/2022 12:18 mj <lists at merit.unu.edu> wrote:
> 
>  
> Op 23-03-2022 om 11:11 schreef Aki Tuomi:
> > 
> > Well, is the sha1 value same every time? If it is, then they are trying same password each time.
> > 
> > Aki
> 
> Yes, understood. :-)
> 
> The SHA1 changes, but each SHA1 is tried multiple times.
> 
> The question is: can we find out, just for this specific user, WHAT the 
> attempted passwords are?

1. Try hashing possible password candidates and compare
2. Temporarily log everyone's passwords and then sanitize logs after you're done.

No way to enable that option for a single user.

Aki


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