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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:23:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11400116.CdDq4vnLvl@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140605000405.687f6ad7@fornost.bigon.be>

On Thursday, June 05, 2014 12:04:05 AM Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> On my machine with audit 2.3.6 the following call to aulast is only
> displaying the "reboot" pseudo-users and not the actual logins:
> 
> ausearch --start this-month --raw | aulast --stdin
> 
> Passing the "--bad" option to aulast, seems to correctly return the
> failed login attempt.
> 
> Also, adding the login name to the aulast command doesn't seems to work
> at all even with the --bad option.
> 
> OTOH, the aulastlog command seems to work as expected.
> 
> An idea?

 Would this happen to be a system with a recent GDM and systemd? If so, they 
are known to be messing up the audit trail. I am trying to write a system 
validation test suite to spot issues like this. If you look at gdm, its 
sending duplicate events. Systemd events don't make it to audit all the time. 
Its a mess on the desktop right now.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04 22:04 aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-04 22:23 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-06-04 22:42   ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-04 23:04     ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-05 17:34       ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-14 11:53         ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-16 21:20           ` Eric Paris
2014-06-16 21:24             ` Eric Paris
2014-06-16 21:28               ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 13:29             ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 14:09               ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-17 14:31                 ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 14:55                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-06-17 15:04                     ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 14:56                   ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 15:15                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-06-17 15:26                     ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 16:30                       ` Steve Grubb

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