From d5f22f9982dca7fa157d1d9b7488a671e0df72b8 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 cab0c1806..7959a0cba 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);
}