From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:51:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121009185153.GA13342@elliptictech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121004233038.2a4c1c10@stein>
On 2012-10-04 23:30 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> > > > # 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.
Indeed, you are correct that the help text does imply that there are
(potentially) other users besides SElinux, although it does not say what
they are. Regardless, the point is that I have no idea why I would have
this optional feature enabled, as I still don't even know what it does
because the help text doesn't actually say. I even found a website,
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/, which seems to be related to
this feature but even here I cannot find one sentence explaining what
the feature is.
Well, from this thread I now know that this feature enables, at least
in some cases, printk messages when your previously-working scripts are
broken by a kernel update.
Cheers,
--
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-09 18:52 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
2012-10-09 18:51 ` Nick Bowler [this message]
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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