implement auth log

[mfilser]

Hello,
first, thanks a lot for this very useful container, it work's very well.

I see on the standard-output that i have a lot of invalid login attempts. I want to secure it with fail2ban, and i need to read the file /var/log/auth.log, but it itsn't there.

Is there an option to enable / implement this?

Thank you in advance,
best regards,
Martin

[pragmatic]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your kind words.

It's out of the scope of this project to implement a logging system, which would be required to expose the log file that fail2ban's logpath wants.

There's a couple of options you can investigate:

1. Look in your hosts Docker container log/var/lib/docker/containers/<CONTAINERID>/<CONTAINERID>-json.log. This file contains JSON formatted output from the Docker daemon.
2. Configure a Docker log driver to run your container with. The syslog or journald drivers may be of most use to you.

Hope that helps.

[BasixKOR]

Could we have a reconsideration? I'm experiencing an authentication issue and without the auth.log it is too much hassle to debug it.

[mfilser]

@BasixKOR
If you like you could try to clone from my repository https://github.com/mfilser/docker-sshd which contains the PR #75, build the image and see if it work's for you too.