Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 232896
gdm create spurious audit entries
Last modified: 2008-06-17 09:28:29 EDT
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #230401 +++ I cloned the RHEL4 bug report as it seems that this one somehow stayed unfixed in Fedora and RHEL5. There was an errata for RHEL4 with this. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #161230 +++ Description of problem: Testing has shown that there is a spurious audit message being generated by gdm: type=USER_ERR msg=audit(06/21/05 09:44:32.699:783952) : user pid=2155 uid=root auid=unknown(4294967295) msg='PAM bad_ident: user=? exe="/usr/bin/gdm-binary" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? result=User not known to the underlying authentication module)' This causes the audit system to log what could be interpretted as "suspicious" events. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install audit package 2. reboot into run level 5 3. ausearch -i -x gdm Actual Results: Among other things you will find a USER_ERR message with no PAM_USER. Additional info: -- Additional comment from tmraz@redhat.com on 2005-06-21 12:53 EST -- Created an attachment (id=115763) Proposed patch This patch simply disables the checking call to pam which is not necessary when gdm is part of the distribution and not manually installed from sources by user. -- Additional comment from rstrode@redhat.com on 2007-03-06 14:17 EST -- This should be built into rawhide now. Is there a RHEL5 bug somewhere too? -- Additional comment from tmraz@redhat.com on 2007-03-19 07:19 EST -- Probably not. I'll clone this one.
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devack
should be fixed in gdm-2.16.0-35.el5 marking MODIFIED for QA
hmm, i wonder how i managed to build this without a qa ack...
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0398.html