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How to create a sudo to root, dedup 24 hours report?

DW2054
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How to create a sudo to root, dedup 24 hour by user report?

So far I have:
process=sudo "USER=root"| rex "(?i) PWD=(?P[^ ]+)"| table date_month, date_mday, host, path_name | dedup host|sort date_mday, host, path_name|rename "date_month" as "Month" "date_mday" as "Day" "host" as "Server" "path_name" as "User ID"

I am getting about 90% of what I want...But the dedup host is causing me to miss data related to multiple users sudo'ing into the same server on the same day. If I take dedup host out, I get numerous transactions of the SUDO user on the same machine.

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jdunlea
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You can use dedup with multiple fields. So if you do your dedup in the following way (or a variation of it) you should be good.

| dedup host user

This is providing that "user" is an actual field of course.

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DW2054
Engager

Final version:

COMMAND=/bin/su - process=sudo| rex "(?i) sudo: (?P[^ ]+)"| table date_month, date_mday, host, path_name |dedup host path_name| sort date_mday, host, path_name| search path_name>0| rename "date_month" as "Month" "date_mday" as "Day" "host" as "Server" "path_name" as "User ID"

Works perfect!

Thank you!

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jdunlea
Contributor

You can use dedup with multiple fields. So if you do your dedup in the following way (or a variation of it) you should be good.

| dedup host user

This is providing that "user" is an actual field of course.

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