[Discuss] Need logging help

[John Abreau]

http://fixunix.com/ssh/73946-sftp-logs.html

> sftp-server logging and the ability to pass command line options to
> subsystems were both added in version 4.4 (which is also why your
> man pages don't have it).



On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:49 AM, scottmarydavidsam at gmail.com
<scottmarydavidsam at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a SuSE v10 server on which I'm running sshd. The sftp subsystem is
> loaded by the ssh daemon. I'd like to log the file transfer activities of
> each user but I've been unable to figure out how.
>
> According to the man page for sshd_config, I can set the logging level by
> un-commenting the line loglevel and adding one of many available values. I
> tried a few (INFO, DEBUG, VERBOSE) but this didn't provide any additional
> sftp logging.
>
> I've found references online suggesting that I can append switches (see
> below) to the subsystem call in sshd_config but that prevents sshd from
> starting (Starting SSH daemon/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 112: garbage at end
> of line; "-f".). It also fails if i remove -f AUTH (Starting SSH
> daemon/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 112: garbage at end of line; "-l".).
> Here's the line from sshd_config:
> Subsystem       sftp    /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server -f AUTH -l VERBOSE
>
> I haven't been able to figure out if there's something different about this
> version of sshd / sftp-server I'm running or if I'm going about it wrong.
> If I can make my existing environment work, I'd rather do that then update
> / upgrade.
>
> Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.
> Scott
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