useradd question

[Lenny Bruzenak]

On 5/20/19 2:59 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:

> So...I went digging through the source code of useradd.c. In main is this 
> comment:
>
>         /*
>          * Do the hard stuff:
>          * - open the files,
>          * - create the user entries,
>          * - create the home directory,
>          * - create user mail spool,
>          * - flush nscd caches for passwd and group services,
>          * - then close and update the files.
>          */
>
> If you dig around, you'll see in the above process it calls usr_update(). 
> This is where the audit event is. The very next function call is close_files. 
> This is where it actually writes to the files where it would be visible to 
> auditd. So, it looks like auditing in shadow-utils is busted.
>
> I also see where its calling pam_tally2 which is deprecated for years. It 
> should be calling faillock. I'll chat with upstream maintainers.
>
> -Steve


Thank you Steve, much appreciated! If they are able to provide a patch,
would you mind asking them to send me a link and I'll test it ASAP?

LCB

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