Failed Sudo Attempts - Use This Query

Who wishes they had sudo access? Who has sudo access but always fat-fingers their password? This query will help you answer these burning questions and maybe find somebody doing something sneaky.

The Query:

tag=syslog words authentication failure | syslog Appname==sudo Message Hostname | regex -e Message "authentication failure; (?P<kv>.+)" | kv -e kv -sep = user | stats count by user Hostname | table user Hostname count

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