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- From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson)
- Subject: SUMMARY: To use shadow passwds, do I need SYSAUDIT in kernel?
- Message-ID: <janet.714369415@dunnart>
- Summary: No!
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- Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
- References: <janet.713781109@dunnart>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:56:55 GMT
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- In <janet.713781109@dunnart> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (that's me) asked about this.
- If you want to refresh your memory, I've quoted my original article below.
-
- Out of the 4 people who replied (thanks, people!) two didn't seem to know
- and two said no.
-
- Ian Angles <ia@st-andrews.ac.uk> said:
-
- > Basically, NO!. I did this with a few kernels, then wondered why it locked
- > up.
-
- > Sun explained to me as thus - login etc., call the routines in the kernel
- > which are just stubs if you don't have SYSAUDIT enabled. When you do have
- > SYSAUDIT enabled the kernel routines try and call things like the audit
- > deamon and write to audit filesystems, which you probably won't have if
- > you're only running shadow passwords.
-
- Also, about the auditing UIDs (see below), Tim Ramsey <tar@math.ksu.edu>
- said:
-
- > You only need the auditing UIDs if you are using the C2 jumbo patch.
-
- which I am.
-
-
- Janet Jackson
- <janet@cs.uwa.edu.au>
- Systems Administrator
- Department of Computer Science
- The University of Western Australia
-
-
- ----------- My original article -----------
-
- [This is for SunOS 4.1.1 on Sparcstations and Sun-4 servers.]
-
- If I want to do Sun password shadowing without doing any of the C2 auditing,
- do I need to build a kernel with the SYSAUDIT option enabled?
-
- I already tried to convert to password shadowing but it didn't work because
- (I'm told) I didn't create the auditing UIDs AUpwdauthd and AUyppasswdd.
- I didn't think I'd need them, but according to various people, I do.
- So maybe I need SYSAUDIT as well.
-
- PLEASE REPLY BY EMAIL and I'll summarise.
-
- My current kernel config file contains:
-
- #
- # The following options are for accounting and auditing. SYSAUDIT
- # should be removed unless you are using the C2 security features.
- #
- options SYSACCT # process accounting, see acct(2) & sa(8)
- #options SYSAUDIT # C2 auditing for security
-
- ----------- End of original article -------
-