Log File Locations

File Transfer Audit Logs

If you have enabled file transfer auditing, logs are created by default in /etc/ssh2/logs. You can configure a non-default location using AuditLog.Directory.

Login Information

The output location for login information is platform-dependent. For details refer to the following table.

Platform

Login history

Current login

Failed login

HPUX (11.11)

/var/adm/wtmp

/etc/utmp

/var/adm/btmp

HPUX (11.23, 11.31)

/var/adm/wtmps

/etc/utmpx

/var/adm/btmps

AIX

/var/adm/wtmp/etc/security/lastlog

/etc/utmp

  • /etc/security/
  • failedlogin
  • /etc/security/
  • lastlog

Solaris

/var/adm/wtmpx

/var/adm/utmpx

/var/adm/loginlog

RHEL

/var/log/lastlog

/var/log/wtmp

/var/run/utmp

/var/log/btmp

SLES

/var/log/wtmp

/var/run/utmp

/var/log/btmp

NOTE:

  • Some platforms write to more than one file.

  • On some Linux systems, btmp is not present. The server writes to this database if it is present.

The output for sshd and sftp-server messages is affected by both Reflection for Secure IT configuration and syslogd configuration. For example, the following entry in /etc/syslog.conf configures a facility called local6 and sends output from that facility to /var/adm/rsit_log.

NOTE:This syntax shown requires a tab between the two entries.

local6.info  /var/adm/rsit_log

To configure Reflection for Secure IT to send sshd messages to the local6 facility, include the following line in the server configuration file (/etc/ssh2/sshd2_config).

SysLogFacility local6