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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: the meaning of this audit entry
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:17:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711202117.38654.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01b101c82bd8$4ecedfd0$6e01a8c0@Rascal>

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 07:49:00 pm Mike Nixon wrote:
> Looks to me like someone that was logged in as 'root' attempted but failed
> to read a x-windows file.  The relevant tipoffs are:
>
> syscall=3  (read)
> success=no      (failed)
> uid=0           (root user account)
> comm="X" or exe="/usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg"

You are forgetting the exit code. In this case, it matters. :)

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-21  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-19 21:22 the meaning of this audit entry Bill Tangren
2007-11-19 22:06 ` Steve Grubb
2007-11-20 15:36   ` Bill Tangren
2007-11-21  0:49     ` Mike Nixon
2007-11-21  2:17       ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2007-11-21  2:22     ` Steve Grubb
2007-11-19 22:13 ` Matthew Booth
2007-11-20 15:08   ` Bill Tangren
2007-11-21  2:27     ` Steve Grubb

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