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Detecting failed su to root attempts

This one-liner will list all failed "su" attempts to the superuser account.

Adegboyega Faleti

This one-liner will list all failed "su" attempts to the superuser account. You'll be amazed at how many users...

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attempt to hack root account.

cat /var/adm/sulog | nawk '$4 == "-" {print $0}' | grep 'root$'

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