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tl;dr

grep -E "sudo:.*docker.*exec.*" /var/log/secure | grep -vE -- "(-u|--user)"
grep -E "sudo:.*docker.*exec.*" /var/log/secure | grep -E -- '(-u|--user)\s*root'

Explanation

One way to secure docker is to allow users to run it with sudo. Alternatively, you can add users to a group named "docker," but this doesn't provide the auditing that sudo has by default. So you can whip up a nice, neat little sudoers.d file similar to:

User_Alias CONT_POC_USERS = %container_sudoers@ADDOMAIN
Runas_Alias CONT_POC_RUNAS = root
Host_Alias CONT_POC_HOSTS = cn-node-5*, cn-node-5*.example.com
Cmnd_Alias CONT_POC_CMNDS = /usr/bin/docker *
CONT_POC_USERS CONT_POC_HOSTS=(CONT_POC_RUNAS) CONT_POC_CMNDS

With a security posture where you will not allow anything to run in a container as root, you can audit compliance with a few regular expressions.

grep -E "sudo:.*docker.*exec.*" /var/log/secure | grep -vE -- "(-u|--user)"
grep -E "sudo:.*docker.*exec.*" /var/log/secure | grep -E -- '(-u|--user)\s*root'

I haven't figured out how to have the negative and positive searches in one string, so any input there would be appreciated! Also, I have not figured out how to actually enforce running the docker exec command only with a -u username flag, without writing a much more complicated whitelist of docker build , docker commit , docker container *, docker cp * et al statements which seems like a lot of work but might ultimately be necessary.