From: "Timothy R. Chavez" <tinytim@us.ibm.com>
To: Rick Warner <rick@microway.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: issue with file watches on Suse 10.1 using latest 2.6.18-rc4 and audit 1.2.3
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:04:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155222269.15877.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608091808.29687.rick@microway.com>
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:08 -0400, Rick Warner wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to set up file watches for files such as /etc/passwd
> and /etc/shadow. I am using Suse 10.1. I have updated the kernel to a
> kernel.org 2.6.18-rc4 kernel, and have updated the audit userspace tools to
> version 1.2.3. I can add filesystem watches with "auditctl -w /etc/passwd"
> successfully now. Entries in the audit.log are created.
>
> The first problem is that when I use "aureport -w", it tells me "<no events of
> interest were found>". Using "aureport -f" instead, it shows entries
> for /etc/passwd, but the auid column for all results is -1 (or "unset" if
> using the -i option to aureport). Looking at the audit logfile,
> auid=4294967295 which then correlates to -1 when used as a signed vs unsigned
> int.
>
> How can I fix this?
>
Rick,
I believe a special PAM package is used to capture the login uid (auid).
I'm guessing that's where your problem lies.
-tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-10 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 22:08 issue with file watches on Suse 10.1 using latest 2.6.18-rc4 and audit 1.2.3 Rick Warner
2006-08-10 15:04 ` Timothy R. Chavez [this message]
2006-08-10 15:40 ` Amy Griffis
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