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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Need help, we are receiving type=SYSCALL with auid=unset event entries
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 21:56:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1525320.RtkigMWjPM@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8AB1B758.42F95C22-ON87257CEC.00705B03-07257CEC.00707DDF@us.ibm.com>

On Tuesday, June 03, 2014 01:28:40 PM Briane Lin wrote:
> We are unable to properly monitor an event with AUID=unset, does anyone 
> know why we are currently seeing these and what is the resolution?

If you have an unset auid and its supposed to be meaningful, then the way that 
people are logging in does not set the auid. This can be done in entrypoint 
software by calling audit_setloginuid(). Pam has coding examples.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-03 20:28 Need help, we are receiving type=SYSCALL with auid=unset event entries Briane Lin
2014-06-04  1:56 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
     [not found] ` <5CB21FE316752445AF212D47C8BE561127541357@XMBVAG75.northgrum.com>
2014-06-04 19:28   ` EXT :Need " Briane Lin

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