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From 9dd3a84f324979c29e8ab4b472e98dfa73e6b290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 16:42:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Log when non-root ksu authorization fails

If non-root user attempts to ksu but is denied by policy, log to
syslog at LOG_WARNING in keeping with other failure messages.

ticket: 8270
(cherry picked from commit 6cfa5c113e981f14f70ccafa20abfa5c46b665ba)
---
 src/clients/ksu/main.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/clients/ksu/main.c b/src/clients/ksu/main.c
index c6321c01b..35ff8978f 100644
--- a/src/clients/ksu/main.c
+++ b/src/clients/ksu/main.c
@@ -417,6 +417,16 @@ main (argc, argv)
     if (hp){
         if (gb_err) fprintf(stderr, "%s", gb_err);
         fprintf(stderr, _("account %s: authorization failed\n"), target_user);
+
+        if (cmd != NULL) {
+            syslog(LOG_WARNING,
+                   "Account %s: authorization for %s for execution of %s failed",
+                   target_user, source_user, cmd);
+        } else {
+            syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Account %s: authorization of %s failed",
+                   target_user, source_user);
+        }
+
         exit(1);
     }