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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: crond
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:40:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231368014.31089.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901071722.41310.sgrubb@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:22 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 04:24:27 pm Starr-Renee Corbin wrote:
> > Is there a way to run an auditctl command that will do both of the  
> > above?
> 
> Not at this point. If the user filter in the kernel allowed type to be used, 
> you might stand a chance. But then there is no way to filter on cron being 
> the source in the kernel. 
> 
> User space originating audit events are sent as a string to the kernel. The 
> kernel does not parse strings and won't match against it. 
> 
> -Steve

in man auditctl you talk about the "exclude" list.  Do you know if this
maps to list number 0x05 ?  Anyway, assuming so, I don't see a reason
right off hand we couldn't pass the userspace audit messages through the
exclude filter list (In kernel it's called the "type" filter list.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07 21:24 crond Starr-Renee Corbin
2009-01-07 22:22 ` crond Steve Grubb
2009-01-07 22:40   ` Eric Paris [this message]
2009-01-07 22:52     ` crond Steve Grubb
2009-01-07 22:59       ` crond Eric Paris

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