From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Robert Evans <bob.evans@jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: Confused about audit=1 in grub.conf
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:22:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010281622.20813.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC9D1CA.3050802@jhuapl.edu>
On Thursday, October 28, 2010 03:40:58 pm Robert Evans wrote:
> I did some research and am confused about starting the audit daemon at
> boot time, so that you don't get auid's of 4294967295.
>
> In RHEL 5.5, my grub.conf looks like this:
>
> audit=1
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
> file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda4
> # initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-194.el5)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
You needed to add audit=1 to the kernel line ^^^ so that its passed to the
kernel.
> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5.img
>
>
> audit=1 is the first line, so why am I still getting the 4294967295
> auid's?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 19:40 Confused about audit=1 in grub.conf Robert Evans
2010-10-28 20:22 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2010-10-29 0:21 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-29 16:20 ` Steve Grubb
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