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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com, kevin.boyce@ngc.com
Subject: Re: Authentication Events
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:07:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901141407.16401.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231956662.3599.42.camel@pc070168.northgrum.com>

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 01:11:02 pm Kevin Boyce wrote:
> Does anyone know if the auditd on RHEL4 is capable of capturing
> logon/logoff and failed authentication events?

The logon/off events should be there as of update 2. But they were improved to 
meet NISPOM in Update 3. They are hardwired into pam and you should not have 
to do anything except use a version of pam from Update 2 or later.

> Would this just be a configuration change in the PAM stack to allow
> auditd to get these events, rather than using syslog?

No changes are needed unless you want to add pam_tally2.

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 18:11 Authentication Events Kevin Boyce
2009-01-14 19:07 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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