Hello, On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 04:39:16 PM Guillaume L. wrote: > I'm trying to use auditd to log all actions made by the users on the > system. This part works fine. > > The documentation mention the "auid" field to identify the user from the > first connection "even" when the user's identity changes (like with a su):
Correct. > auid=500 > The auid field records the Audit user ID, that is the loginuid. This ID is > assigned to a user upon login and is inherited by every process even when > the user's identity changes (for example, by switching user accounts with > the su - john command). > > But this is not working. If I log with the user "test" (uid 1000) when I > switch to the user root, the value of auid is 0 (the uid of root). How did you switch the user? I would like to try recreating the issue. It may be that the underlying implementation actually does log you out. You'd have to look for one of: AUDIT_USER_LOGOUT - User has logged out AUDIT_USER_END - User session end AUDIT_CRED_DISP - User credential disposed -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
