Re: Which userspace packages modified for audit

Steve Grubb
2007-02-25T19:40:57Z

On Sunday 25 February 2007 13:41:56 Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Most of them have just support for emitting USER_LOGIN audit records.
>
> Are these necessary, because PAM emits USER_START / USER_END records
> anyway...

Yes. NISPOM is concerned about tracking login/logout. How do you distinguish
an actual login/logout vs the start of a session with the pam records? su and
cron, for example, do not do an actual login yet they create those records.

-Steve