Enable logging remote ssh contacts

[Fokke Nauta]

René Berber-2 wrote:
> 
> On 4/26/2011 2:02 PM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> I edited the proper sshd_config file. Perhaps I didn't do that well
>> enough,
>> but after restarting the Cygwin ssh service no login attempt was logged
>> after I logged in.
> 
> Where are you looking for the log?
> 
> If you are not running syslog-ng (or any other syslog) then the log is
> Windows' event log.
> 
> But if you did install/configure/run syslog-ng then its at
> /var/log/messages (or a different log if you configured that).
> 
> Don't confuse /var/log/sshd.log for the real log, that one is just for
> output sent by cygrunsrv (the program that serves as helper to make sshd
> a Windows service).
> -- 
> René Berber
> 

Thanks. I was looking in /var/log/sshd.log indeed.
So - in order to see a real log file I need to install/configure/run
syslog-ng.
How do I do that?

Fokke
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