RE: Getting the user ID in log messages...

[Stephen Smalley]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:17, Levine, Daniel J. wrote:
> Perhaps my problem is simpler to solve than this.  All I really need is the
> user ID of the person who logged in to the system.  This identifies whose
> account was used to perpetrate the illegal access.  Could the user ID number
> and user name be added to the log messages when violations occur

That is something which is best handled by the audit framework.  Boot
with audit=1.  The audit framework already includes support for setting
a login uid; someone just needs to patch login and friends to use it.