[Auditbeat] Cherry-pick #12028 to 7.1: Login: Fix re-read of utmp files #12104
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Cherry-pick of PR #12028 to 7.1 branch. Original message:
The
login
dataset is not using the previous file offset when reading new entries in a utmp file. As a result, whenever a new login event occurs, all records are re-read.The fix for this is one line in utmp.go (
utmpFile.Offset = savedUtmpFile.Offset
).I also took the opportunity to expand the documentation, move our test files to
testdata/
, and write a test case that adds a utmp record to the test file and re-reads it to make sure this bug does not happen again.