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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: reactive audit proposal
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 14:03:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7295083.E8dtrJcxLY@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2037581034.269445.1589390222295@mail.yahoo.com>

On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:17:02 PM EDT Joe Wulf wrote:
> What you propose is a sound enhancement.
> I have no preference for the choice between incorporate this in the audit
> daemon versus a plugin.What would be the effort to switch from one to the
> other if later on you should find the first choice wasn't as optimal?

Well, the main idea for a plugin is not to stop processing events. Busy 
systems need to keep focused on unloading the kernel backlog.
 
> I wonder about the case where a system is booted with new media already
> attached.

During initialization, it runs through the mount table just as if the mount 
table was changed. So, it has the opportunity to apply rules during init. I'm 
borrowing code from fapolicyd which has this nicely solved. (It's one of my 
other projects.)

-Steve



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-13 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-13  0:22 reactive audit proposal Steve Grubb
2020-05-13  0:31 ` Joe Nall
2020-05-13  0:36   ` Steve Grubb
2020-05-13 16:47     ` Joe Nall
     [not found] ` <2037581034.269445.1589390222295@mail.yahoo.com>
2020-05-13 18:03   ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2020-05-14  8:55     ` Burn Alting
2020-05-14 13:32       ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-05-14 14:47         ` Steve Grubb
2020-05-14 15:14           ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-05-15 15:00 ` Lenny Bruzenak

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