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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:31:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140617103125.1871abbf@flatline.rdu.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140617160932.1e12ac53@soldur.bigon.be>

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:09:32 +0200
Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> wrote:

> Le Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:29:21 -0400,
> Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> a écrit :
> 
> > On Monday, June 16, 2014 05:20:10 PM Eric Paris wrote:
> [...]
> > > I'd call this a pretty clear userspace bug where it just
> > > completely drops records, even if it can't parse them...
> > 
> > That theory can be tested by using:
> > 
> > ausearch --start this-week --debug > /dev/null
> > 
> > Anything that gets tossed out will be reported to stderr.
> 
> I'm getting indeed quite a lot of skipped event:
> 
> Malformed event skipped, rc=7. type=LOGIN
> msg=audit(1402934401.462:1626): pid=1719 uid=0 old-auid=4294967295
> new-auid=0 old-ses=4294967295 new-ses=121 res=1

This feel like 2 clear bugs.

1) The kernel records for LOGIN are 'malformed' in 3.14.
2) Userspace silently throws records which are 'malformed' away, instead
of just printing them...

ausearch -m LOGIN should be able to display these things...

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04 22:04 aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-04 22:23 ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-04 22:42   ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-04 23:04     ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-05 17:34       ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-14 11:53         ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-16 21:20           ` Eric Paris
2014-06-16 21:24             ` Eric Paris
2014-06-16 21:28               ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 13:29             ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 14:09               ` Laurent Bigonville
2014-06-17 14:31                 ` Eric Paris [this message]
2014-06-17 14:55                   ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-06-17 15:04                     ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 14:56                   ` Steve Grubb
2014-06-17 15:15                     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-06-17 15:26                     ` Eric Paris
2014-06-17 16:30                       ` Steve Grubb

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