Preventing reverse DNS lookups

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Fri, Dec 14, Eric Smith wrote:

> I've googled this for several hours and gotten nowhere, so I'm turning 
> to this list in hopes someone can point me in the right direction.
> 
> I think this is a PAM question.  If not, my apologies.
> 
> I want to prevent reverse DNS lookups on log lines like this:
> 
> Dec 13 20:13:14 myhost vsftpd: pam_unix(vsftpd:auth): authentication 
> failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ftp ruser=adrian 
> rhost=s42.deinprovider.de

Please see "man pam_set_item" and search for "PAM_RHOST". This item
is set by the application, not PAM.

  Thorsten

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