November 2005

Unwanted auxprop related lines in logfiles

Since I configured my mail server, I was getting the following lines in my auth.log.  Everything was working, users had to log in to receive or send mail, so the messages were really cluttering the logfile. Nov 28 00:02:39 rm-003-11 lmtpunix[1085]: sql_select option missingNov 28 00:02:39 rm-003-11 lmtpunix[1085]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism availableNov 28 00:05:44 […]

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MacSFTP got Sandy banned

Sandy’s use of MacSFTP to connect to our server, for some unknown reason, was causing a PAM authentication failure – even though it would log him in fine.  Since I installed fail2ban to protect the server against SSH script-kiddie attacks, he got banned a couple times since a line that said "Authentication failure" popped into

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