How to avoid logging cleartext passwords upon unix authentication failures

[Matthew Newton]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:39:55PM +0000, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
> 
> On 25 Feb 2014, at 14:54, Matthew Newton <mcn4 at LEICESTER.AC.UK> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:05:10PM +0100, Gianni Costanzi wrote:
> >> Tue Feb 25 11:36:49 2014 : Auth: [unix] invalid password "wrongPassword"
> >> 
> >> Is it possible to tell the unix module not to log passwords? We already
> >
> > In v3 the invalid password logging has gone away, so if you
> > upgrade then you should be OK.
> 
> * Is only displayed and debug level 3.

Debug logs, yeah. I thought he was talking about
/var/log/freeradius/radiusd.log

v3 is the way to go, anyhow.

Matthew


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