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kvshreyas8_3415
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Nov 21, 2017

How to pass client IP onto access logs for TCP (port:22) connections?

We have bitbucket installed and we would want to capture client ip address for every ssh git operation. We were able to capture client IP for http git operation. We have apache httpd configured and w...
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Kai_Wilke
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Nov 21, 2017

Hi kvshreyas8,

 

the SSH protocol does not provide such a "X-Forwarded-For" or "X-Client-IP" feature like the HTTP protocol does.

 

The only chance I currently see to still meet your requirements, is to inject the original Client-IP into the initial cleartext Client/Version exchange of the SSH conversation (its the first TCP packet send by the client to the server).

 

The outcome of this injection technique would then still depend on the logging abilities of your SSH server. If the SSH server is able to log the SSH-User-Agent/Version string passed during SSH negotiation, then you could somehow parse the original client IP out of those log lines...

 

Cheers, Kai