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  • Thats what I thought... so if I see 3 logins at the exact same second I should be concerned... Thanks! Commented Feb 13, 2015 at 13:10
  • Well... obviously somebody is trying to login for root via e.g. ssh. I assume, you have logon for root turned off as well as added some things like fail2ban on your box. Commented Feb 13, 2015 at 13:12
  • Yeah but I still needed to make sure about this, I thought since one of the apps connecting to this box does it via certificates for remote management that it would use OpenSSH and that it would trigger the auth.log entries Commented Feb 13, 2015 at 13:14