From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Cc: Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit=0 appears not to completely disable auditing
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:55:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703221755.45802.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070322214519.GA15039@fc.hp.com>
On Thursday 22 March 2007 17:45, Amy Griffis wrote:
> When audit_enabled was first implemented, it was only intended to turn
> off syscall auditing, not _all_ auditing.
At that time, syscall auditing *was* all auditing. :)
> This was so users could use audit for selinux messages without the overhead
> of syscall audit.
SE Linux has always been different and you shouldn't really consider it in the
auditing system for enable/disable. The reason its different is that it uses
audit as a transport mechanism and can happily use syslogs, too.
> > The patch below solves this problem by checking audit_enabled before
> > creating an audit event.
>
> If you want audit_enabled=0 to turn off audit completely, do you also
> want to drop selinux messages?
No, the SE Linux folks want avc messages at all times unless the admin
specifically sets a rule to suppress them.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-09 20:50 [PATCH] audit=0 appears not to completely disable auditing Steve Grubb
2007-03-22 21:45 ` Amy Griffis
2007-03-22 21:55 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2007-04-02 18:57 ` Amy Griffis
2007-04-02 19:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-26 16:52 ` Eric Paris
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