Re: aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users

Eric Paris
2014-06-17T14:31:25Z

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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