auditing procmail?

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Wed Feb 23 16:13:46 UTC 2005


--- Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> Anybody have any good ideas on what should happen
> for auditing and loginuid
> when Sendmail invokes procmail as a delivery agent,
> and we're running
> essentially arbitrary code as the user from their
> .procmailrc?  My gut
> feeling is that this *should* act just like a cron
> job for auditing
> purposes, but the sendmail/procmail interface isn't
> in the least PAM-ified,
> so we can't just toss in a 'session required
> pam_audit.so'...

Since the user can define what goes into the
.procmailrc and since whatever is specified runs
as the user the audit should identify the user
and be treated as a user session. In the days
before delivery agents we still had to deal with
"vacation", and audit that appropriately.


=====
Casey Schaufler
casey at schaufler-ca.com


		
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