Bug 3274

Summary:	Make MaxStartup errors/warnings appear at the INFO log level
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	John Devitofranceschi <foonon>
Component:	sshd	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	djm, dtucker
Priority:	P5
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description John Devitofranceschi 2021-03-10 00:00:11 AEDT

In a recent debugging session with one of my users on a very busy server, we only discovered that we needed to tune MaxStatups after increasing the LogLevel setting to VERBOSE.

I would think that this kind of condition warrants reporting at the default LogLevel (INFO).  It would have shaved a few days off of the debugging process in our case if this had been the case.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2021-03-10 00:29:35 AEDT

What version did you see that with?  There was a change to improve the logging that shipped in 8.4 (bug#3055, commithttps://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/9c5f64b6c)

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2021-03-12 14:50:44 AEDT

Yes, there is ample MaxStartups logging at info/error level now, specifically whenever MaxStartups starts or stops throttling and periodically while in this condition.

see https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/9c5f64b6c

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2021-04-23 15:00:26 AEST

closing resolved bugs as of 8.6p1 release