FTP Attempts Log

Sean Tan

• June 19, 2015 07:17

Hi, is there a log in to check the authentication attempts of any successful or failed login for FTP? I downloaded the raw access logs from the cPanel but it only showed which user upload or download what files. I wanted to check for any users that tries to login, regardless of successful or failed login. Just wanted to know who actually tried coming in via FTP. Its running on CentOS6.6

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  24x7ss

  • June 19, 2015 19:05

  check /var/log/messages for FTP login and failed logs.

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  Sean Tan

  • June 22, 2015 06:59

  Thanks. How do I change the retention of the data/files for the messages file? Currently I am seeing only 5 files, which I assumed is the default and I wanted to increase more.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 09, 2015 18:54

  Hello :) Yes, as mentioned, you can monitor the FTP login activity in the /var/log/messages log file. There's a thread here on changing the LogRotate default values:

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