[PATCH 0/5] Add support for sessionid user filters, sessionid_set and loginuid_set

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 5:38:56 AM EDT Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Add support for sessionid, sessionid_set (first two patches) and
> loginuid_set (and auid_set) (third patch) in user filters.  The first
> two are directly related to issue "ghak4":
>         https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/4
>         https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/wiki/RFE-Session-ID-User
> -Filter
> 
> The third is to support a kernel change from 3.10 and 3.19 to avoid
> using in-band values to indicate the loginuid is unset.

Have the above three patches been tested on old kernels?

> The last two patches are to add unset flags to sessionid and loginuid
> for ausearch and aureport.  These two patches are extras and not
> required for basic support.

I don't understand what the point of these last two items are. If the session 
is not set, we have ses=4294967295 in the audit trail. That can already be 
specified in ausearch as --session -1. I also am not sure that session 
information makes any sense for aureport because we have aulast which reports 
on session activity for users.

-Steve