From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Recording user commands (from RE: Linux-audit Digest, Vol 31,
	Issue 12)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:10:07 -0400
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On Friday 27 April 2007 16:05, Taylor_Tad@emc.com wrote:
> While a little more verbose than one might like, couldn't you audit
> exec() system calls?

Yes, you could certainly do that. But as you said, it would be more data than 
you would want. If you had a policy of no root logins, you could define a 
rule something like this:

-a always,entry -S execve -F 'auid>=500'

And that should cut it down to the commands run by real users and not daemons.

>However, you might want to only audit successful exec()s.

I don't think execve returns in the normal sense when successful.

-Steve