EXT :Re: RedHat 6 Testing

[Boyce, Kevin P (AS)]

The ausearch records root as the UID.

The cat command returns a UID of 1386 which is my ldap account UID.

Is there a way to prevent cron from inheriting my session (perhaps by removing the session line in /etc/pam.d/crond)?

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Grubb [mailto:sgrubb at redhat.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:15 PM
To: linux-audit at redhat.com
Cc: Boyce, Kevin P (AS)
Subject: EXT :Re: RedHat 6 Testing

On Friday, March 25, 2011 10:55:43 am Boyce, Kevin P (AS) wrote:
> I have a script in cron.weekly that has a command being executed which I am
> auditing for execve.  That part seems to work fine. However, in the
> detailed audit report my user id is associated with the execution.  Root
> owns the files there and ultimately root is the effective UID in the
> record, but why am I associated with the activity at all?

What did pam record for the user_start?
ausearch --start today -x crond -m user_start

This should show which account the script will run under. The cron daemon should set 
the loginuid to it. That would cause all actions done by the script to be attributed 
to that user.

Also, have you restarted the cron daemon? Maybe in inheritted your account. You can 
check by this:

cat /proc/`ps -C crond -o pid= | tr -d ' '`/loginuid

-Steve