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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Maupertuis Philippe <philippe.maupertuis@worldline.com>
Subject: Re: Setting loginuid for a process starting at boot
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:16:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1583332.IZPiC8c0Xe@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389643975.15435.16.camel@flatline.rdu.redhat.com>

On Monday, January 13, 2014 03:12:55 PM Eric Paris wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 23:00 +0100, Maupertuis Philippe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to monitor a process which starts at boot.
> > 
> > I would like to assign  it a specific loginuid for that purpose.
> > 
> > What is the best way to do that ?
> 
> Have the init script echo a value into /proc/self/loginuid ?

The loginuid is supposed to be used only for real user sessions. The daemon 
would not normally qualify as a user session. I suspect that this is needed 
because we have no way to audit by process name. I suspect that is the real 
issue that leads to needing to use the loginuid for something it was not 
intended for.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-13 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-12 22:00 Setting loginuid for a process starting at boot Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-13 20:12 ` Eric Paris
2014-01-13 20:16   ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-01-13 21:17     ` RE : " Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-13 22:05       ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-14 13:13         ` Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-14 14:33           ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-14 15:55             ` Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-14 16:15               ` Steve Grubb

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