TECH TIPS
Detecting failed su to root attempts
Adegboyega Faleti
10.29.2002
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This one-liner will list all failed "su" attempts to the superuser account. You'll be amazed at how many users a
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ttempt to hack root account.
cat /var/adm/sulog | nawk '$4 == "-" {print $0}' | grep 'root$'
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