On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 16:22 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Thursday, October 28, 2010 03:40:58 pm Robert Evans wrote: > > I did some research and am confused about starting the audit daemon at > > boot time, so that you don't get auid's of 4294967295. > > > > In RHEL 5.5, my grub.conf looks like this: > > > > audit=1 > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > > # > > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this > > file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > > # root (hd0,0) > > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda4 > > # initrd /initrd-version.img > > #boot=/dev/sda > > default=0 > > timeout=5 > > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > hiddenmenu > > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-194.el5) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > You needed to add audit=1 to the kernel line ^^^ so that its passed to the > kernel. > > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.el5.img > > > > > > audit=1 is the first line, so why am I still getting the 4294967295 > > auid's?
Steve's right, but the answer to your question is "because that has nothing to do with audit=1." auid's = -1 just mean that the process was not started by a logged in user. They were likely started by init. -Eric -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
