Bug 187751
| Summary: | Getting rid of su(pam_unix) console messages | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Dag Wieers <dag> |
| Component: | pam | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | srevivo |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-04-03 15:00:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Since you have stopped the syslogd daemon and pam_unix uses LOG_CONS flag when logging, the messages which would go to the system log are written on console instead. This is normal behaviour. You can either remove 'session .... pam_unix.so' from the /etc/pam.d/system_auth configuration or just run the syslogd to prevent this behaviour. Note that the session part of the pam_unix module doesn't have any other purpose than logging these messages so removing it is harmless if you don't want to get them. |
Description of problem: Our console has lots of messages like: su(pam_unix)[5854]: session closed for user dag su(pam_unix)[5974]: session opened for user dag by (uid=0) And for security reasons we don't want to have these on the screen. We don't want to disclose what users exist on a system. Since we disabled syslogd/klogd and we still get these messages, they have to come from pam_unix directly ? Is there a way to disable this, I haven't been able to find how though. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: