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From: Burn Alting <burn@swtf.dyndns.org>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Auparse feature or bug
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:10:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363259442.3199.44.camel@swtf.swtf.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2011116.HnREtfWCp5@x2>

OK. So, in essence, the example I provided is a just poorly formatted
event from PAM. Or rather, one that can't be parsed by the auparse
library without loss of data.

TIA

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 06:54 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday, March 14, 2013 09:21:30 PM Burn Alting wrote:
> > As you can see, we have lost the 'password' element of the
> > 	"op=change password"
> > key value pair in the original event.
> > 
> > Is this a feature or bug???
> 
> Its a feature. The only thing guaranteed by the audit system is that 
> name=value pairs are supported. Additional text may be there to add context 
> for people reading the event. But for machine parsing only name=value is 
> returned. So, if the additional text is needed, then either '-' or '_' can be 
> added between words (as many other events do).
> 
> -Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 10:21 Auparse feature or bug Burn Alting
2013-03-14 10:54 ` Steve Grubb
2013-03-14 11:10   ` Burn Alting [this message]
2013-03-14 12:55     ` Steve Grubb

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