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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Executable permissions
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:11:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200612131111.42083.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458023AF.4030204@redhat.com>

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:00, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> Is there a reason that the audit tools that take a file name paramater
> (-if) are not executable by non-root users?

Current tools do not.

[root src]# grep getuid *.c
auditctl.c:             if (getuid() != 0) {
auditctl.c:             if (getuid() != 0) {

Must be root to send netlink

auditd.c:       if (getuid() != 0) {

Must be root to read netlink

autrace.c:      if (getuid() != 0) {

Must be root to write to netlink.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-13 16:00 Executable permissions Karl MacMillan
2006-12-13 16:11 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2006-12-13 16:19   ` Linda Knippers
2006-12-13 16:20   ` Karl MacMillan
2006-12-13 17:14     ` Steve Grubb

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