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Operating Systems Solaris Audit useradd/userdel - Solaris 11 Post 303018272 by hicksd8 on Friday 1st of June 2018 12:58:48 PM
Old 06-01-2018
Can you elaborate on why you are trying to audit useradd/userdel.

You are needing to audit superuser activity? Only superuser privileges can add an account and if you can't trust the superusers then you're in serious trouble.
 

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getaudproc(2)							System Calls Manual						     getaudproc(2)

NAME
getaudproc() - get the audit process flag for the calling process SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
returns the audit process flag for the calling process. The audit process flag (u_audproc) determines whether the process run by a given user should be audited. The process is audited if the returned flag is 1. If the returned flag is 0, the process is not audited. This call is restricted to users with the privilege. Security Restrictions Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser have this privilege. Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges. RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, the audit process flag is returned; otherwise, a is returned and is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
fails if the following is true: The caller does not have the privilege. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
setaudproc(2), privileges(5). getaudproc(2)
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