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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: AUID question
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:26:26 -0500
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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