From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.6
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:30:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121004233038.2a4c1c10@stein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121004171602.GA20155@elliptictech.com>
On Oct 04 Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2012-10-04 09:14 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:03:54PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > > On 2012-10-04 08:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > FWIW, there should have been an audit message about it in dmesg.
> > >
> > > There were zero messages in the kernel log.
> > >
> > > # dmesg -C
> > > # cd /tmp
> > > # mkdir testdir
> > > # ln -s testdir testlink
> > > # chown -h nobody testlink
> > > # cd testlink
> > > cd: permission denied: testlink
> > > # dmesg
> > > (no output)
> >
> > Well that's sad. :( Two situations I can think of for that:
> > - the kernel wasn't build with CONFIG_AUDIT
>
> Indeed, I do not have this option enabled. Why would I have it? The
> description says it's for SELinux, which I do not use.
It says it is /among else/ for SELinux. Another user appears to be
ConsoleKit, which wants CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL, which depends on CONFIG_AUDIT.
--
Stefan Richter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-04 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-01 0:38 Linux 3.6 Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 19:46 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-03 20:05 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 20:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-03 20:49 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 20:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-03 20:58 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-03 21:05 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-03 21:04 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-04 13:35 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-04 15:49 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-04 16:03 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-04 16:14 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-04 17:16 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-04 21:30 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2012-10-09 18:51 ` Nick Bowler
2012-10-03 20:49 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-03 22:23 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-10-03 23:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
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