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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: /var/log/audit ownership/permissions
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 09:55:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12890758.RtUGNIL9cO@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d3522ae-ff55-5a91-5e8d-b64fac67e84b@redhat.com>

On Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:48:04 AM EDT Ondrej Moris wrote:
> Hi, I noticed that in 2.6.5 /var/log/audit permission were dropped from
> 750 to 600. 

The directory should be 0750 or 0700 depending on your config. 0600 would be a 
mistake.


> I am fine with that but while I see the motivation [1], I
> just cannot find where is that happening in the code. 

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/browser/trunk/src/auditd-event.c#L886

> Besides, specfile
> still contains:
> 
> %attr(750,root,root) %dir %{_var}/log/audit

Maybe I should take the attr away or modify it to (-,root,-). The group can 
change. For example, I have wheel allowed to run audit reports on my system.

> and hence 'rpm -V audit' obviously fails.

Yeah. Hmm.

-Steve

> [1]
> http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/tech-list/2016-May/msg00468.html
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-21 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-21  9:48 /var/log/audit ownership/permissions Ondrej Moris
2016-07-21 13:55 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2016-07-21 14:12   ` Ondrej Moris
2016-07-21 14:31     ` Steve Grubb

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