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From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Which userspace packages modified for audit
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:21:09 +0100
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 02:40:57PM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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.

We could really handle this together with the loginuid tracking, right?

The pam_loginuid module could also generate the USER_LOGIN messages for instance?

Ciao, Marcus