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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Which userspace packages modified for audit
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:40:57 -0500
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On Sunday 25 February 2007 13:41:56 Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Most of them have just support for emitting USER_LOGIN audit records.
>
> Are these necessary, because PAM emits USER_START / USER_END records
> anyway...

Yes. NISPOM is concerned about tracking login/logout. How do you distinguish 
an actual login/logout vs the start of a session with the pam records? su and 
cron, for example, do not do an actual login yet they create those records.

-Steve