Change severity level for drop bear login?

[Deleted member 27741]

I am playing around with log severity levels a bit and like a log severity level of 5 (as opposed to my usual 7). At that level, ssh logins do not log.

Can dropbear be altered so logins are logged at a severity level of 5? In fact, I would like it to log logins no matter what my log severity level is.

Is it possible to change the severity level of particular syslogd events or processes? I might like to do this with other things (pptp, openvpn, http, ssh, telnet come to mind) as well.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Looking at the source code for dropbear it appears that every message (and there are a lot) has its loglevel hard-coded. So you would have to change the source code and recompile it.

The only other change you can make to dropbear's logging is to redirect all the output to stderr instead of syslog.