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> So my question is why normal users audit event logs cant be captured
> as a "type=USER_TTY" , where as root logs can be captured
> similarway.
USER_TTY is sent by the process that accepts the keyboard input. Unprivileged users are not allowed to send audit records (otherwise they would be able to fill the queue and/or the log partition, causing a DoS), so the USER_TTY record is discarded.
Even for unprivileged users you should have the type=TTY records, although they are noticeably more difficult to interpret.
Mirek
- Koresh