On Monday 14 January 2008 06:06:33 kunal chandarana wrote: > In audit logs one field which is always present is "TYPE". > > What does this type indicate ?
It signifies the record's type. > If this type indicates the symbolic constants which are defined in > linux/audit.h then types like USER_AUTH, USER_ACCT, CRED_ACQ etc are not > defined in that particular file. in audit.h, things are name spaced so they don't collide with defines elsewhere. They all have an AUDIT_ prefix. So, if you wanted to mape them, AUDIT_USER_LOGIN would be printed as USER_LOGIN. There is a function that does this mapping from number to string and another string to number. From libaudit.h: extern int audit_name_to_msg_type(const char *msg_type); extern const char *audit_msg_type_to_name(int msg_type); You should not have to write this function yourself since the audit libraries have conversion functions. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
