On Friday 20 April 2007 20:24, paul moore wrote: > A) sometimes as root I echo to /proc/self/loginuid and it is ignored. Why?
Show me an example. > There is no error message Not sure if '>' outputs error messages. > B) always if I echo to /proc... as non root it is ignored (as it should be) > but no message is generated; shouldn't it say EPERM? Not sure the '>' outputs errors. You could strace it and see that the errno was returned and the shell did nothing with it. > C) I put pam_loginuid in my gdm pam config but my xterm windows still have > -1 in loginuid (I have rebooted) How are you starting your xterm windows? If I use gnome terminal all is well. Even if I start an xterm window from it everything is still OK. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit