From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Maupertuis Philippe <philippe.maupertuis@worldline.com>
Subject: Re: Setting loginuid for a process starting at boot
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:16:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1583332.IZPiC8c0Xe@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389643975.15435.16.camel@flatline.rdu.redhat.com>
On Monday, January 13, 2014 03:12:55 PM Eric Paris wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 23:00 +0100, Maupertuis Philippe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to monitor a process which starts at boot.
> >
> > I would like to assign it a specific loginuid for that purpose.
> >
> > What is the best way to do that ?
>
> Have the init script echo a value into /proc/self/loginuid ?
The loginuid is supposed to be used only for real user sessions. The daemon
would not normally qualify as a user session. I suspect that this is needed
because we have no way to audit by process name. I suspect that is the real
issue that leads to needing to use the loginuid for something it was not
intended for.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 22:00 Setting loginuid for a process starting at boot Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-13 20:12 ` Eric Paris
2014-01-13 20:16 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-01-13 21:17 ` RE : " Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-13 22:05 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-14 13:13 ` Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-14 14:33 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-14 15:55 ` Maupertuis Philippe
2014-01-14 16:15 ` Steve Grubb
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