Re: Proposal "LUID"

Linda Walsh (law@sgi.com)
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:05:46 -0700


Jesse Pollard wrote:
> I would rather have the session id logged - it already exists.
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	Where?  I don't see it in the task struct.
	In my reading of the CAPP, it says it wants
things tracked on a user-id basis for audit purposes.  Session auditing is
a tangential function that would not appear to satisfy the CAPP.

> This would > allow the same/equivalent audit trail, and could also be used for > accounting logs to generate session level accounting.

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	How is a session defined?  Where is it setup and authenticated?  CAPP
requires a certain minimal authentication strength to be checked to initiate
a user session and to begin auditing that user.  

Besides, couldn't you do the same type of auditing with a LUID? For security purposes, it seems you could track user activity between a login/logout?

I don't want to make this more complex than it needs to be since security is inversely proportional to complexity.

-l

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