uid<-->username question

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Thu Mar 5 16:10:56 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:08 -0600, LC Bruzenak wrote:
> All,
> 
> I was thinking about a scheme to retrieve usernames from UIDs on
> different machines. I was going to push the passwd file from a
> participating audit client up to the server. Then I'll store it uniquely
> according to its IP address (e.g. /var/etc/passwd.192.168.10.10). 
...
Forgot to add - one alternative is to replace the UIDs in the events
with the usernames, but I thought that one might be a bigger impact to
the code base.

LCB.
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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny at magitekltd.com




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