[hobbit] sshd notification in syslog

[Rob Munsch]

Funny you should mention.

 From the SSH list where i posted the same question (secureshell at 
securityfocus dot com):

"Generally, these are caused when a machine connects to the SSH port, but
doesn't attempt login.  they're very common if, for example, you're
making periodic connections to port 22 via some kind of monitoring
system.  However, any connection which never gets around to
authenticating, from a port scan to a user connecting and walking away
for a few minutes, can cause this message."

So... yeah.

thomas.seglard.enata at cnp.fr wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> since deployment of hobbit's client on 200 servers (hpux, aix, sun, 
> linux), I got this message in syslog :
>
> Feb 13 12:05:44 psa089 sshd[9813]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:06:47 psa089 sshd[9980]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:07:49 psa089 sshd[10006]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:08:17 psa089 sshd[10012]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:08:48 psa089 sshd[10078]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:09:52 psa089 sshd[10564]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:10:55 psa089 sshd[10871]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:11:57 psa089 sshd[10987]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:13:00 psa089 sshd[11060]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:13:20 psa089 sshd[11065]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:14:02 psa089 sshd[11166]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
> Feb 13 12:15:06 psa089 sshd[11297]: Did not receive identification 
> string from 158.157.156.91
>
> Ip address is the one from my hobbit's server (158.157.156.91). This 
> message do not specify that the ssh test failed, so I'm not worried 
> about this. The main problem is the size of syslog and /var is growing 
> rapidly ! Anyone knows how to prevent this message to be display in 
> syslog ?
> Thank you !
>
> Thomas Seglard
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Rob Munsch
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