Re: Which userspace packages modified for audit

Marcus Meissner
2007-02-26T13:21:09Z

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 02:40:57PM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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.

We could really handle this together with the loginuid tracking, right?

The pam_loginuid module could also generate the USER_LOGIN messages for instance?

Ciao, Marcus