Log HTTP Auth Failures

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:09:48AM -0500, Cody wrote:

> This is what the error log in Apache will show when there is an HTTP  
> Auth failure:
> 
> 
> [Mon Jan 12 22:33:30 2009] [error] [client 206.54.234.130] user mike:  
> authentication failure for "/": Password Mismatch
> [Wed Jan 28 22:55:53 2009] [error] [client 206.54.234.130] user mike:  
> authentication failure for "/": Password Mismatch
> [Tue May 05 00:59:41 2009] [error] [client 73.103.214.122] user asdf  
> not found: /
> [Tue May 05 01:01:03 2009] [error] [client 73.103.214.122] user mike:  
> authentication failure for "/": Password Mismatch

This had been added in

Changes with nginx 0.7.38                                        23 Feb 2009

    *) Feature: authentication failures logging.

but still was not merged in 0.6.

> On May 5, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:57:08AM -0500, Cody wrote:
> >
> >>Is it possible to have Nginx log the HTTP Authentication failures  
> >>like
> >>Apache does?
> >
> >Could you show examples ?


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