From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: "linux-audit@redhat.com" <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kauditd is writing too many lines in syslog
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:24:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140120182450.GG7084@madcap2.tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140120124055.4b5dfdf7@ivy-bridge>
On 14/01/20, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:36:27 -0500
> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > Can I ask kauditd not print anything if user space program cannot
> > > handle that much message?
> >
> > Sure, on the kernel boot line you can set audit=0 to disable kaudit,
> > or you can tell the init system to not start auditd.
>
> what if someone never wants events to go to syslog?
Then we need to add a new feature to kaudit to stop them.
This also begs the question of what happens to AUDIT_USER_AVC
messages... This patchwork is messy.
> -Steve
- RGB
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-20 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-20 4:45 kauditd is writing too many lines in syslog Aaron Lewis
2014-01-20 5:11 ` Aaron Lewis
2014-01-20 17:36 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-01-20 17:40 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-20 18:24 ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]
2014-01-20 18:34 ` Aaron Lewis
2014-01-20 20:43 ` Eric Paris
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