auditd not logging proper log.

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Sat Jul 10 14:27:09 UTC 2021


On Saturday, July 10, 2021 2:28:55 AM EDT Rakesh Kumar wrote:
> 1)I am trying to run the auditd (start/stop)  without root user as normal
> user , how to achieve this on linux.?

For security reasons, this is not allowed.

> 2)i am using kernel version 4.19.97 and i am not getting any login/logout,
> authentication fail/pass log data in audit.log file. DOes it need any
> changes in the config or rules..

This is hardwired into pam. The rules don't matter. I'd check that pam was 
compiled with audit support and that audit is enabled in the kernel.

-Steve





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