SEC 350:Lab 2.2 - WanderlustPenguin/Charles-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

  • sudo psswd (username)- allows you to change the password for a user account on Vyos
  • ssh key-gen- set up key for ssh
  • set system syslog host (logger ip) facility authpriv level info- send authpriv info to logger on linux

drop in file


forward logs

  • web01, done on device to forward from
  • Sudo nano /etc/rsyslog.d/sec350.conf
  • Sudo nano /etc/rsyslog.d/sec350-client.conf
  • write the following two lines
  • user.notice @172.16.50.5
  • authpriv.* @172.16.50.5

  • new logger location is ls -lR –color /var/log/remote-syslog/

  • to access detailed version of logs, use the information from the previous command to fill in this, cat /var/log/remote-syslog/(DEVICENAME).(DATE).(LOGTITLE).log

  • .d means directory, add a / and write more to create a usable file within the directory