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authorAndre Albsmeier <mail@fbsd2.e4m.org>2026-06-19 13:50:00 +0000
committerMichael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org>2026-06-20 20:34:30 +0000
commit6a7c8c92245562cfd9b900dedacab99a13d5ca86 (patch)
treecbf214d9bd804fb7e7fc67a5323df9d59ea95365
parente44579e23430ff2084b03c9b3d486f05e617e04f (diff)
periodic/security: Introduce $security_status_loginfail_ignore for 800.loginfail
Introduce a new variable "security_status_loginfail_ignore" to filter unwanted login failure messages from the daily security checks. Co-authored-by: Michael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org> Co-authored-by: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> PR: 295191 Reviewed by: jrm MFC after: 1 week Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57671
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/periodic.conf.56
-rwxr-xr-xusr.sbin/periodic/etc/security/800.loginfail1
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
index 8910895d9b89..568493154558 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd April 9, 2024
+.Dd June 19, 2026
.Dt PERIODIC.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -1036,6 +1036,10 @@ Set to either
.Dq Li monthly
or
.Dq Li NO .
+.It Va security_status_loginfail_ignore
+.Pq Vt str
+Set to an extended regular expression to filter out unwanted messages.
+By default, no messages are filtered.
.It Va security_status_tcpwrap_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
diff --git a/usr.sbin/periodic/etc/security/800.loginfail b/usr.sbin/periodic/etc/security/800.loginfail
index 91564185b653..562201439794 100755
--- a/usr.sbin/periodic/etc/security/800.loginfail
+++ b/usr.sbin/periodic/etc/security/800.loginfail
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ then
echo ""
echo "${host} login failures:"
n=$(catmsgs | egrep -ia "${prefix}.*\b(fail(ures?|ed)?|invalid|bad|illegal|auth.*error)\b" |
+ grep -Eva "${security_status_loginfail_ignore-^\$}" |
tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
[ $n -gt 0 ] && rc=1 || rc=0
fi