Reboots and audit.rules

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, March 30, 2017 8:17:05 AM EDT warron.french wrote:
> Steve, is there anyway that you know of both as the author of the Red Hat
> Audit software, and also an employee of Red Hat that would allow someone to
> review the audit logs and determine one of the following 2 possibilities:

We have specification around most things these days. This is the document about 
system lifecycle events:

https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation/wiki/SPEC-System-Lifecycle-Events

According to it, the event you are looking for is SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN. The reason 
for shutdown is not required.

>    1. If the machine was rebooted through software; such as;
> 
>    - poweroff,
>    - shutdown,
>    - init, etc.. etc..

You could place watches on these if you really wanting this information.

> 2. Or a person pressed the power button on the front of the machine.

There is also hibernate and pulling the power cord.

-Steve

> I ran into this problem in the workplace last year, and this feature would
> be helpful, but I don't know if it is already offered covering the
> power-button depression; versus the command execution.
> 
> I understand that with a power-button depression there is no way of
> capturing the/a userid; perhaps a hidden default account of "power-button"
> would suffice?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> --------------------------
> Warron French