From: Robert Evans <bob.evans@jhuapl.edu>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Why doesn't chown produce an event
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:00:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4638D1BD.4040508@jhuapl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705021330.59459.sgrubb@redhat.com>
Got it! So when I want to figure out how to trace something, the recommended
course of action is do a strace on the operation, and look for a good syscall to
tag...
Bob
Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:13, Robert Evans wrote:
>> If I log in as a typical user and try "chown bob /etc/shadow" I don't get
>> an event produced, however if I try "chmod 666 /etc/shadow" I do.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
> A syscall. If I am on a i386 machine and I strace chmod root file.txt, I see
> this:
>
> chown32("file.txt", 0, -1) = 0
>
> So, you would want to use chown32 instead of chown on i386 machines. On x86_64
> the chown syscall is used.
>
> -Steve
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-02 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 15:13 Why doesn't chown produce an event Robert Evans
2007-05-02 15:14 ` Marcus Meissner
2007-05-02 15:45 ` Evans, Robert B.
2007-05-02 17:34 ` Steve Grubb
2007-05-02 17:30 ` Steve Grubb
2007-05-02 18:00 ` Robert Evans [this message]
2007-05-02 18:15 ` Steve Grubb
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