I've noticed that the messages I'm searching for in splunk to show root password
changes no longer seem to be in the same format. Most of our systems run RHEL7 release
7.9, and I believe this is a recent change (I've only noticed this problem in the
past 3 months or so?), but we do have an older 7.5 system, so I was able to use that to
compare against the 7.5 to identify what's changed. I wanted to confirm which
record I should be using now since there are several that get generated now
The key differences seem to be in the message generated and the keyname being used for the
account being targeted, but I wanted to confirm that there isn't some other record I
should be looking at to verify that the root password was changed in the required
timeframe since I see several records being generated from a password change, none of
which include anything as conclusive as the old message that showed the operation as a
"password change". Here are some fo the fields I'm looking at:
type=USER_CHAUTHOK
exe=/usr/bin/passwd
[acct targeted for the passwd change]:
id=root (old format)
acct=root (latest format)
msg
msg='op=change password (old format)
msg='op=PAM:chauthok (latest format)
If you can confirm whether this is the info I should be using now to confirm password
changes, that would be much appreciated.
Thanks so much,
Karen Wieprecht