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From: Karl MacMillan <kmacmill@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Executable permissions
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:20:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45802834.5070806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612131111.42083.sgrubb@redhat.com>

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:00, Karl MacMillan wrote:
>> Is there a reason that the audit tools that take a file name paramater
>> (-if) are not executable by non-root users?
> 
> Current tools do not.
> 

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /sbin/au*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root   3080 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/audispd*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  88216 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/auditctl*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  96068 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/auditd*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 102864 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/aureport*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 115420 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/ausearch*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  68816 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/autrace*

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep audit
audit-libs-1.3-3.fc7
audit-1.3-3.fc7
audit-libs-python-1.3-3.fc7
audit-libs-devel-1.3-3.fc7

It's not the code, but rather the default permissions on the 
executables. So this might just be a packaging problem.

Thanks - Karl

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-13 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-13 16:00 Executable permissions Karl MacMillan
2006-12-13 16:11 ` Steve Grubb
2006-12-13 16:19   ` Linda Knippers
2006-12-13 16:20   ` Karl MacMillan [this message]
2006-12-13 17:14     ` Steve Grubb

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