Get rid of the message: session opened for user

[Pete Travis]

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On 08/30/2014 08:58 AM, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks. I checked all three options Rick suggested and none of them
> worked.
> Does anybody know about a solution which works ?
>
> regards,
> Kevin
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com>
wrote:
>> 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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>>

Hey Kevin,

I'm curious - why?  I've found these messages to be very useful when
troubleshooting or auditing remote connection attempts.  If you're
looking at the logs and only want to see messages from a specific
service, you can simply filter based on your needs at the time, ie
`journalctl --since today --unit NetworkManager`.

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