From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, Robert Evans <bob.evans@jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: Confused about audit=1 in grub.conf
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:20:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010291220.24597.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288311702.3017.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thursday, October 28, 2010 08:21:42 pm Eric Paris wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 16:22 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > You needed to add audit=1 to the kernel line ^^^ so that its passed to
> > the kernel.
>
> Steve's right, but the answer to your question is "because that has
> nothing to do with audit=1." auid's = -1 just mean that the process was
> not started by a logged in user. They were likely started by init.
That is true when you have audit=1 being passed to the kernel correctly.
However, if you do not do that. You sometimes run into problems with gdm
because of parallel booting. Its possible (even required an entry in the FAQ
because it was happening that often - see #8) to get auid of -1 when logging
in via gdm.
So, if you have audit=1 and pam_loginuid is in the correct places and you
still get auid=-1, that is because its a daemon or program running that is not
associated with a user session.
-Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-29 16:20 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
2010-10-29 0:21 ` Eric Paris
2010-10-29 16:20 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
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