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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:30:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6239134.gMXMm0ujKa@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140617112601.4841004e@flatline.rdu.redhat.com>

On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:26:01 AM Eric Paris wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:56:24 -0400
> 
> Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:31:25 AM Eric Paris wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:09:32 +0200
> > > 
> > > 2) Userspace silently throws records which are 'malformed' away,
> > > instead of just printing them...
> > > 
> > > ausearch -m LOGIN should be able to display these things...
> > 
> > It does not have a concept of completing
> > search criteria and just dumping the record out. There might be
> > something that can be done here, but lots a changes risks breaking
> > things in subtle ways.
> 
> I understand, but I can't imagine any customer that would want these
> records silently thrown away.  When grep is a more reliable tool, we're in
> trouble   :)

Grep is not trying to make sense out of the audit trail. :-) I checked in a 
change that helps some, but it only fixes ausearch when loginuid is not 
specified.

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/957

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 16:30 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
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 [this message]

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