Jesse Pollard wrote:
> I would rather have the session id logged - it already exists.
--- 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. --- 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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