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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Tracking account lockouts and permission denied
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:25:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810011625.39328.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0FED9929-66E9-4A72-85B7-5DE790B06446@arlut.utexas.edu>

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 15:58:44 Starr-Renee Corbin wrote:
> Hello, I am using RHEL 4 and need /var/log/audit/audit.log to show  
> when an account is locked out

This is hardwired into the pam_talley2 code. As long as its in your login 
config and audit is enabled, you should get it.

> and when a user is denied permission to 
> security relevant files such as /etc/shadow.

In RHEL4, you can get accesses to /etc/shadow via watches, but not just the 
denied because of permission. aureport --file --failed would find them for 
you. 

You can also get all opens that failed due to permission denied. This would 
include more than /etc/shadow, though. 

RHEL5 and current upstream kernels do not have this limitation and can record 
the permission denied access to security relevant files.

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-01 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 19:58 Tracking account lockouts and permission denied Starr-Renee Corbin
2008-10-01 20:25 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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