From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: LC Bruzenak Subject: Re: uid<-->username question Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:10:56 -0600 Message-ID: <1236269456.7212.442.camel@homeserver> References: <1236269323.7212.439.camel@homeserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n25GBEbH015319 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:11:14 -0500 Received: from mail.magitekltd.com (rrcs-24-242-137-197.sw.biz.rr.com [24.242.137.197]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n25GAvNm007563 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:10:57 -0500 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 1LfG8Q-0001PZ-Uj for linux-audit@redhat.com; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:09:23 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1236269323.7212.439.camel@homeserver> 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, 2009-03-05 at 10:08 -0600, LC Bruzenak wrote: > All, > > I was thinking about a scheme to retrieve usernames from UIDs on > different machines. I was going to push the passwd file from a > participating audit client up to the server. Then I'll store it uniquely > according to its IP address (e.g. /var/etc/passwd.192.168.10.10). ... Forgot to add - one alternative is to replace the UIDs in the events with the usernames, but I thought that one might be a bigger impact to the code base. LCB. -- LC (Lenny) Bruzenak lenny@magitekltd.com