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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: audit_log_user_message question
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:01:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805271401.51319.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211910963.6568.73.camel@homeserver>

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 13:56:03 LC Bruzenak wrote:
> In looking at the user application audit I'm wondering why there is a
> "hostname" field there?

So that apps like sshd can say where the user is coming from.


> I understand the obvious answer but would think I'd trust the auditd or
> audispd more than an application for the hostname answer, and those
> would be consistent.

That's a different hostname. :)

The hostname field as used in audit_log_user_message would be a remote machine 
name and not the local address. Many apps do not need this field and should 
pass NULL if unused.

-Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27 17:56 audit_log_user_message question LC Bruzenak
2008-05-27 17:59 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-05-27 18:01 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2008-05-27 18:06   ` LC Bruzenak

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