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From: LC Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com>
To: Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: audisp-prelude login question
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:46:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225370817.9388.306.camel@homeserver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810300634.15594.sgrubb@redhat.com>


On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 06:34 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 
> Nope...somewhere the pam originating events are being eaten. You might strace 
> an xdm login and look for some sendto's followed immediately by recvfrom's to 
> the audit socket. If they are missing entirely, then xdm is not calling pam. 
> If they are there, we'd want to look at the return code to see if its having 
> an error. Is xdm running as root at the point pam is called? Are there 
> selinux rules? Are there dontaudit rules eating this?
> 

I bet you're right. I'll look for this.
I hate it when my own policy foils me...
:)

I appreciate the advice,
LCB.

-- 
LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny@magitekltd.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30  2:28 audisp-prelude login question LC Bruzenak
2008-10-30  3:27 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-10-30 10:34 ` Steve Grubb
2008-10-30 12:46   ` LC Bruzenak [this message]
2008-10-30 14:29     ` LC Bruzenak
2008-10-30 18:07       ` Steve Grubb

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