'internal-sftp' subsystem from SSH daemon does not use the specified log-facility

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Issue

  • We are using the internal-sftp subsystem built-in to sshd for the purposes of allowing a jailed environment for users to upload/download files.
  • We have specified a particular logging facility in the configuration file, like so:
[...]
Subsystem       sftp    internal-sftp -l VERBOSE -f LOCAL6
[...]
  • Moreover, we configured the logging for the chrooted environment by following this article
  • However, sftp-related messages aren't logged using the specified log facility. Messages are sent using the default sshd logging facility.
  • We have disabled SELinux.
  • This setup was working up until December 2012. An update after that broke the functionality for RHEL 6 as well as RHEL 5.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • sshd
  • rsyslog / syslogd

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