From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>, Alexander <goal81@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding bug 435682
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:58:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110210858.24462.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6962cb6b-c2c2-406c-87c5-e7ed306dd840@zmail07.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
On Friday, October 21, 2011 08:49:30 AM Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> > Here's a patch for version 2.1.3 which solves bug 435682 (
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435682 ).
> > Patched auditctl allows to specify files having spaces in ther names
> > - just surround a filename with apostrophes.
>
> This patch also arbitrarily breaks handling of apostrophes and \xFF
> characters in filenames; it probably is a marginal improvement, but any
> change to the format should IMHO start with an explicit and consistent
> specification of how quoting is supposed to work in audit.rules, and then
> implementing exactly that.
>
> If we do have to change the file format to support spaces, let's do it, but
> let's also make sure that we don't need to change it again soon to fix
> different artifacts of the parser implementation. Mirek
I was thinking of using the same mechanism as shell escaping '\' since this is how
bash would present the path to the user.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-21 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-20 14:48 Regarding bug 435682 Alexander
2011-10-21 12:49 ` Miloslav Trmac
2011-10-21 12:58 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2011-10-21 13:03 ` Alexander
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2011-10-28 13:56 Alexander
2011-12-03 13:44 ` Steve Grubb
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