Steve / et all,
I am working on scripting a report that can be run to filter and display the audits on a
weekly basis, and I am having issues pulling specific events that indicate when users are
added through the User Manager GUI (GNOME 2.28.2). I have nispom.rules file running on
kernel "2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 (RHEL 6.2)". The following are the only events
that show up in the audit.log for this activity.
type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(04/05/2016 14:21:42.854:36615) : user pid=15667 uid=root
auid=root ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
msg='op=PAM:accounting acct=root exe=/usr/sbin/userhelper hostname=? addr=? terminal=?
res=success'
----
type=USER_START msg=audit(04/05/2016 14:21:42.870:36616) : user pid=15667 uid=root
auid=root ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
msg='op=PAM:session_open acct=root exe=/usr/sbin/userhelper hostname=? addr=?
terminal=? res=success'
These events are followed by other SYSCALL events showing root writing to shadow, gshadow,
and passwd, but no indication of the actual account that was created/modified. Unless I am
not configured correctly, these seems like a critical oversight. Perhaps I am missing
something?
I know that we can gather other events, such as when the useradd command is used, but
there are many admins that prefer to use the GUI. I suppose I could copy the passwd file
on a weekly basis and perform a diff, but it seems to me that this type of information
should be baked in already, especially in cases where we are using indexers such as
splunk.
-Joe Blackwell