On Wednesday, June 28, 2023 10:15:48 AM EDT Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Di, 27.06.23 12:04, Panu Matilainen (pmati...@redhat.com) wrote:
> > On 6/22/23 19:55, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Adopting_sysusers.d_format
> > > 
> > > I would caution against this whole proposal. Not that I'm against it,
> > > but just saying be careful doing it. People often forget about our
> > > security concerns. Currently, shadow-utils has about 400 places which
> > > generate audit events during the managing of system and user accounts.
> > > libuser (I saw the deprecation email) has 55 places where it sends
> > > audit events managing accounts.
> > > 
> > > There is a 10 year old (or more) standard published here:
> > > https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation/wiki/SPEC-User-Accou
> > > nt-Lifecycle-Events
> > > 
> > > If %pre getent, useradd, and groupadd  are being replaced by something,
> > > that something needs to conform to the expected security safeguards
> > > that currently exist. It needs to match the kind of events and the
> > > format that currently exists.
> > 
> > Looking at the systemd-sysusers source [1], it seems to do exactly zero
> > audit logging. So there's a bit of work to do on that front...
> 
> last time I looked auditd is started later than
> systemd-sysusers. Hence not sure if sysusers would actually generate
> audit messages that auditd could pick them up.

When booted with audit=1, the kernel will look to audit_backlog_limit and 
hold that many event records until auditd can download them. The typical 
number people set is 8192.

-Steve

> In general though: people who care about audit need to send us patches
> for this, if this matters to them. I don't think anyone in systemd
> upstream wil work on this on their own.



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