[PATCH 2/2] audit: document /proc/PID/sessionid

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Thu Mar 11 16:40:51 UTC 2021


Describe the /proc/PID/loginuid interface in Documentation/ABI/stable that
was added 2008-03-13 in commit 1e0bd7550ea9 ("[PATCH] export sessionid
alongside the loginuid in procfs")

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
index fae63bef2970..175ee6ec3695 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/procfs-audit_loginuid
@@ -13,3 +13,15 @@ Description:
 		AUDIT_FEATURE_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE is enabled.  It cannot be
 		unset if AUDIT_FEATURE_ONLY_UNSET_LOGINUID is enabled.
 
+
+What:		Audit Login Session ID
+Date:		2008-03-13
+KernelVersion:	2.6.25-rc7 1e0bd7550ea9 ("[PATCH] export sessionid alongside the loginuid in procfs")
+Contact:	linux-audit at redhat.com
+Format:		u32
+Users:		auditd, libaudit, audit-testsuite, login
+Description:
+		The /proc/$pid/sessionid pseudofile is read to get the
+		audit login session ID of process $pid.  It is set
+		automatically, serially assigned with each new login.
+
-- 
2.27.0




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