Need help, we are receiving type=SYSCALL with auid=unset event entries

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Wed Jun 4 01:56:34 UTC 2014


On Tuesday, June 03, 2014 01:28:40 PM Briane Lin wrote:
> We are unable to properly monitor an event with AUID=unset, does anyone 
> know why we are currently seeing these and what is the resolution?

If you have an unset auid and its supposed to be meaningful, then the way that 
people are logging in does not set the auid. This can be done in entrypoint 
software by calling audit_setloginuid(). Pam has coding examples.

-Steve




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