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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Auparse feature or bug
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:54:20 -0400
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On Thursday, March 14, 2013 09:21:30 PM Burn Alting wrote:
> As you can see, we have lost the 'password' element of the
> 	"op=change password"
> key value pair in the original event.
> 
> Is this a feature or bug???

Its a feature. The only thing guaranteed by the audit system is that 
name=value pairs are supported. Additional text may be there to add context 
for people reading the event. But for machine parsing only name=value is 
returned. So, if the additional text is needed, then either '-' or '_' can be 
added between words (as many other events do).

-Steve