From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Grubb Subject: Re: Confused about audit=1 in grub.conf Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:22:20 -0400 Message-ID: <201010281622.20813.sgrubb@redhat.com> References: <4CC9D1CA.3050802@jhuapl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CC9D1CA.3050802@jhuapl.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: linux-audit@redhat.com Cc: Robert Evans List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com 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?