From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: AUID question
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:26:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2358445.E63IALoBCF@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFB969D3C1.F3862AC5-ON85257D90.005352C1-85257D90.0053E147@us.ibm.com>
On Friday, November 14, 2014 10:16:12 AM David Flatley wrote:
> While checking audit logs for failed logins, It was noticed that the
> AUID was one name and there was a UID of the user that failed login. The
> only thing we can figure is that the AUID user rebooted the system
> by logging in as himself and then using sudo to reboot the system prior to
> the fails. Are we correct in this assumption?
Maybe. If the auid was someone with admin powers, they might have restarted a
daemon which would insert their auid into the daemon and then cause other
user's logins to be wrong. But generally when auid!=uid, then they have used
sudo or su.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-14 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-01 21:49 Remote logging with autitd Wouter van Verre
2014-11-02 18:12 ` Steve Grubb
2014-11-02 21:16 ` Wouter van Verre
2014-11-02 21:25 ` LC Bruzenak
2014-11-02 22:09 ` Wouter van Verre
2014-11-13 22:23 ` Wouter van Verre
2014-11-14 2:44 ` Steve Grubb
2014-11-14 15:16 ` AUID question David Flatley
2014-11-14 15:26 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-11-18 12:21 ` Remote logging with autitd Wouter van Verre
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