If there is no access entry then that definitely needs to be fixed.
Please file a JIRA for 0.14.0 if that is the case.

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Larry for the quick response. I'll have to go back and double check
> if the access and uri are in there. If so I must have missed it the first
> time through. Correlating across the GUID should work for our quick
> debugging.
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:23 AM, larry mccay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin -
>>
>> I would think that you can use the correlation id (GUID) to find the url
>> used to access the failed authentication.
>> For instance, consider the following:
>>
>> *17/10/10 10:19:20
>> ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddde5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI||||access|uri|/gateway/mgt/ambari/api/v1/clusters/ljm/requests?to=end&page_size=10&fields=Requests&_=1507645160383|unavailable|Request
>> method: GET*
>> *17/10/10 10:19:20
>> ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddde5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||authentication|uri|/gateway/mgt/ambari/api/v1/clusters/ljm/requests?to=end&page_size=10&fields=Requests&_=1507645160383|success|*
>> *17/10/10 10:19:20 ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-*fddd
>> e5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||dispatch|uri|
>> http://c6401.ambari.apache.org:8080/api/v1/clusters/ljm/r
>> equests?to=end&fields=Requests&page_size=10&_=1507645160383|
>> unavailable|Request method: GET
>> 17/10/10 10:19:20 ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddd
>> e5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||dispatch|uri|
>> http://c6401.ambari.apache.org:8080/api/v1/clusters/ljm/
>> requests?to=end&fields=Requests&page_size=10&_=1507645160383
>> |success|Response status: 200
>> 17/10/10 10:19:20 ||a7bae089-e52d-403e-a623-fddd
>> e5c15c67|audit|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|AMBARI|anonymous|||access|uri
>> |/gateway/mgt/ambari/api/v1/clusters/ljm/requests?to=end&
>> page_size=10&fields=Requests&_=1507645160383|success|Response status: 200
>>
>> All of the above are related to the same request.
>> The "access" entry prior to the "authentication" entry contains the URI
>> being request with the topology in it.
>>
>> Does this not meet the needs?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> --larry
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Risden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Background
>>> ----------------
>>> Currently we have multiple topologies in a single Knox server. Each
>>> topology points to a different Hadoop environment. For this example, assume
>>> the topologies are named DEV, TEST, and PROD.
>>>
>>> We had a group who hits Knox forget to change their LDAP password so
>>> there were a bunch of messages like this in the audit logs:
>>>
>>> 17/09/12 15:05:08 ||GUID|audit|WEBHBASE||||authe
>>>> ntication|principal|USERNAME|failure|LDAP authentication failed.
>>>
>>>
>>> We contacted the group and they wanted to know which topology the
>>> requests were hitting so they could fix their password. Regardless of if
>>> they should have different users per environment or not, we had no way to
>>> easily tell the group which topology they were hitting. The LDAP
>>> authentication failure log didn't say which topology it was hitting.
>>>
>>> It would be great if the audit log message was something like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 17/09/12 15:05:08 ||GUID|audit|DEV|WEBHBASE||||a
>>>> uthentication|principal|USERNAME|failure|LDAP authentication failed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In this case, the topology was added in the audit line maybe near the
>>> service name. We think having the topology name on the line somewhere would
>>> be useful for debugging purposes.
>>>
>>> Question
>>> ------------
>>> Is it possible to configure Knox to log which topology each line in the
>>> audit log came from?
>>>
>>> I was looking at https://github.com/apache/k
>>> nox/blob/master/gateway-util-common/src/main/java/org/apache
>>> /hadoop/gateway/audit/log4j/layout/AuditLayout.java and I'm not sure if
>>> its possible to easily add the topology there or if it is even the right
>>> place?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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