I don't think it's possible at this time. You can get it to display
the log entries though, which will give you that information.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Marco Bonetti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am taking a look at Ossec and I have to say I am very impressed by the tool 
> right now.
> I'm trying to understand how the ossec-reportd works but I am a bit puzzled. 
> Take for example rule 5303 (successful su for user root):
>
> # cat /var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.log | /var/ossec/bin/ossec-reportd -f 
> rule 5303
> ...
> Top entries for 'Username':
> ------------------------------------------------
> root                                            |3       |
> ...
>
> reported 'Username' is "root" which is... well... not really useful :)
> However Ossec is able to understand who su-ed to root, because the decoder 
> has this kind of information:
>
> # echo "Oct 13 11:22:33 ossec su[11171]: + /dev/pts/0 someone:root" | 
> /var/ossec/bin/ossec-logtest
> ...
> **Phase 2: Completed decoding.
>       decoder: 'su'
>       srcuser: 'someone'
>       dstuser: 'root'
> ...
>
> so, how could I access to decoder information like srcuser from the report 
> tool?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marco
>
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