From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: LC Bruzenak Subject: Re: audisp-prelude login question Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:46:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1225370817.9388.306.camel@homeserver> References: <1225333698.9388.287.camel@homeserver> <200810300634.15594.sgrubb@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9UCleQ5021873 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:47:40 -0400 Received: from mail.magitekltd.com (rrcs-24-242-137-197.sw.biz.rr.com [24.242.137.197]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9UCkwCi020749 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:46:59 -0400 Received: from [24.242.137.194] (helo=[192.168.30.40]) by mail.magitekltd.com with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KvWv2-0005Hi-7Y for linux-audit@redhat.com; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:46:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200810300634.15594.sgrubb@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: Linux Audit List-Id: linux-audit@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