audisp-prelude login question

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Thu Oct 30 12:46:57 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 06:34 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 
> Nope...somewhere the pam originating events are being eaten. You might strace 
> an xdm login and look for some sendto's followed immediately by recvfrom's to 
> the audit socket. If they are missing entirely, then xdm is not calling pam. 
> If they are there, we'd want to look at the return code to see if its having 
> an error. Is xdm running as root at the point pam is called? Are there 
> selinux rules? Are there dontaudit rules eating this?
> 

I bet you're right. I'll look for this.
I hate it when my own policy foils me...
:)

I appreciate the advice,
LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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