Get rid of the message: session opened for user

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Thu Aug 21 19:57:00 UTC 2014


On 08/21/2014 11:33 AM, Kevin Wilson issued this missive:
> HI,
> Each time I ssh with a putty client from windows to Linux Fedora 20, I
> get the following
> messages in the /var/log/messages file:
> sshd[772]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user xxx by (uid=yyy)
>
> Is there a way to prevent this messages ?

Try editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config. set "LogLevel" to "QUIET", "FATAL"
or "ERROR" (default is "INFO") and restart sshd via "systemctl restart
sshd.service"
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