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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux-audit Digest, Vol 40, Issue 8
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:27:28 -0500
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On Monday 14 January 2008 06:06:33 kunal chandarana wrote:
> In audit logs one field which is always present is "TYPE".
>
> What does this type indicate ?

It signifies the record's type.


> If this type indicates the symbolic constants which are defined in
> linux/audit.h then types like USER_AUTH, USER_ACCT, CRED_ACQ etc are not
> defined in that particular file.

in audit.h, things are name spaced so they don't collide with defines 
elsewhere. They all have an AUDIT_ prefix. So, if you wanted to mape them, 
AUDIT_USER_LOGIN would be printed as USER_LOGIN. There is a function that 
does this mapping from number to string and another string to number. From 
libaudit.h:

extern int        audit_name_to_msg_type(const char *msg_type);
extern const char *audit_msg_type_to_name(int msg_type);


You should not have to write this function yourself since the audit libraries 
have conversion functions.

-Steve