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positiveBeam
New Member
June 16, 2026
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Frequent admin privilege escalations on supervisor

  • June 16, 2026
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We just installed a new FSM virtual appliance cluster on 7.4.2. In the raw events we are seeing a high frequency stream of Generic_Unix_Successful_Switch_User events coming from the Supervisor node.

Raw privilege escalation events

They don’t seem to correspond to any real user activity and the sequence begins right after the Supervisor was fully initialized. I assume it’s associated with some automated or scheduled FSM process, but we haven’t been able to identify crons or anything similar responsible for this.

Is this normal for the supervisor in 7.4.2? What is the source of these events?

2 replies

AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
June 16, 2026

This is root user switching to admin user (less powerful) on a non shell process.

From Linux prospective there are couple of methods to know which process is switching to admin, e.g. you can use auditd or a simple “while” loop.

AEK
Muttahar_Rehman
Explorer
June 16, 2026

yeah this is expected behavior as ​@AEK  mentioned

Thanks, R3hsec