Log IP on SSH authentication failure for Built-in SSH server (#13150)

* Log IP on SSH authentication failure

fixes https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/13094

* include string 'Failed authentication attempt' in error

* update fail2ban docs

also match failed authentication over command line

* better logging of authentication errors with IP addresses

* format ...

Co-authored-by: techknowlogick <techknowlogick@gitea.io>
Co-authored-by: 6543 <6543@obermui.de>
mj-v1.14.3
Eric Lesiuta 3 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -20,18 +20,24 @@ sure to test this before relying on it so you don't lock yourself out.**
Gitea returns an HTTP 200 for bad logins in the web logs, but if you have logging options on in
`app.ini`, then you should be able to go off of `log/gitea.log`, which gives you something like this
on a bad authentication:
on a bad authentication from the web or CLI using SSH or HTTP respectively:
```log
2018/04/26 18:15:54 [I] Failed authentication attempt for user from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
```
```log
2020/10/15 16:05:09 modules/ssh/ssh.go:188:publicKeyHandler() [E] SearchPublicKeyByContent: public key does not exist [id: 0] Failed authentication attempt from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
```
```log
2020/10/15 16:08:44 ...s/context/context.go:204:HandleText() [E] invalid credentials from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
```
Add our filter in `/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/gitea.conf`:
```ini
# gitea.conf
[Definition]
failregex = .*Failed authentication attempt for .* from <HOST>
failregex = .*(Failed authentication attempt|invalid credentials|Attempted access of unknown user).* from <HOST>
ignoreregex =
```

@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ func publicKeyHandler(ctx ssh.Context, key ssh.PublicKey) bool {
pkey, err := models.SearchPublicKeyByContent(strings.TrimSpace(string(gossh.MarshalAuthorizedKey(key))))
if err != nil {
log.Error("SearchPublicKeyByContent: %v", err)
log.Error("SearchPublicKeyByContent: %v Failed authentication attempt from %s", err, ctx.RemoteAddr())
return false
}

@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ func ServCommand(ctx *macaron.Context) {
for _, verb := range ctx.QueryStrings("verb") {
if "git-upload-pack" == verb {
// User is fetching/cloning a non-existent repository
log.Error("Failed authentication attempt (cannot find repository: %s/%s) from %s", results.OwnerName, results.RepoName, ctx.RemoteAddr())
ctx.JSON(http.StatusNotFound, map[string]interface{}{
"results": results,
"type": "ErrRepoNotExist",
@ -317,6 +318,7 @@ func ServCommand(ctx *macaron.Context) {
userMode := perm.UnitAccessMode(unitType)
if userMode < mode {
log.Error("Failed authentication attempt for %s with key %s (not authorized to %s %s/%s) from %s", user.Name, key.Name, modeString, ownerName, repoName, ctx.RemoteAddr())
ctx.JSON(http.StatusUnauthorized, map[string]interface{}{
"results": results,
"type": "ErrUnauthorized",

@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ func HTTP(ctx *context.Context) {
owner, err := models.GetUserByName(username)
if err != nil {
log.Error("Attempted access of unknown user from %s", ctx.RemoteAddr())
ctx.NotFoundOrServerError("GetUserByName", models.IsErrUserNotExist, err)
return
}

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