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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: auditctl -1 User ID
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:30:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902181230.07368.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499C425E.1050804@groupw.com>

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:16:14 pm Dan Gruhn wrote:
> I'm getting an auditctl startup SELinux violation that is showing up
> with a user ID of -1 (4294967295 in my case).  

-1 means that the command was run by something that was not initiated by a 
login. IOW, probably initscripts.


> I can fix the violation, but before I do I thought I saw something a while
> back about setting a parameter or defining a variable on power-up so that
> one didn't get the -1 for something that came up in the wrong order.

There is nothing that fixes that.  This is just a statement of fact. The error 
originated from a non-login path. What you might be remembering is that you 
should put a audit=1 in the boot params of the kernel. This is so that you 
don't have any unauditable processes.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18 17:16 auditctl -1 User ID Dan Gruhn
2009-02-18 17:30 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2009-02-18 21:24   ` Dan Gruhn

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