Failed login attempts ip-adress?

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Hi all,

I recently found this in pimatic-daemon.log:

20:52:07.768 [pimatic] error: User login failed: Wrong username or password 20:52:13.980 [pimatic] error: User login failed: Wrong username or password 20:52:21.631 [pimatic] error: User login failed: Wrong username or password 20:52:31.196 [pimatic] error: User login failed: Wrong username or password 20:52:39.250 [pimatic] error: User login failed: Wrong username or password

How do I find out what the ip-adress was of these failed login attempts?

I think you have no chance to find out the IP. Do you have enabled access from outside your network?

The IP address is not logged by pimatic. I can add this with the next release, however.

Alternatives: If you have enabled access from an external network you should have a proxy in the loop and in this case the proxy can provide the required logging facilities. Another possibility is to enable logging on pimatic host. For example, you can use iptables, see https://serverfault.com/questions/457340/how-to-log-the-ip-addresses-trying-to-connect-to-a-port

@ortin No, i don’t have access from outside my network enabled. As it turns out, it was my wife trying to login .

@mwittig Yes, please add ip-adress logging in the next release. That way people that do have outside access enabled can at least secure it with fail2ban.