how to redirect the password failure logs into a syslog file?

[vyshnav]

Hi ,
We are getting some password failures logs on console.How to redirect the password failure logs into a syslog file.
Please find the below messages which we are getting.
unix_chkpwd[20884]: password check failed for user (admin)
unix_chkpwd[31854]: password check failed for user (root)
unix_chkpwd[22765]: password check failed for user (sftpuser)

Regards,
Vyshnav

[MartinR]

Have a look in /etc/rsyslog.conf and see if there is any line with the second field set to /dev/console.