Auparse feature or bug

[Burn Alting]

OK. So, in essence, the example I provided is a just poorly formatted
event from PAM. Or rather, one that can't be parsed by the auparse
library without loss of data.

TIA

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 06:54 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday, March 14, 2013 09:21:30 PM Burn Alting wrote:
> > As you can see, we have lost the 'password' element of the
> > 	"op=change password"
> > key value pair in the original event.
> > 
> > Is this a feature or bug???
> 
> Its a feature. The only thing guaranteed by the audit system is that 
> name=value pairs are supported. Additional text may be there to add context 
> for people reading the event. But for machine parsing only name=value is 
> returned. So, if the additional text is needed, then either '-' or '_' can be 
> added between words (as many other events do).
> 
> -Steve