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From: LC Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com>
Subject: Re: ausearch results differ with "-i" flag
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:15:30 -0500
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On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 14:57 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 
> > What happened to the position that changing audit output from the
> kernel was
> > verboten?
> 
> This particular avc originates from user space. The application needs
> to follow the rules correctly so it doesn't mess up the logs.

User space, yes, but from the Xorg server. Because X controls accesses
internally it apparently audits stuff using the USER_AVC in this way.
My confusion is that I thought any freetext should be allowed inside the
"msg=" field and not interpreted by ausearch. 

I remember a while back though you told me why this can happen...so I
need to look back and see. I suspect because the parse libs work as I
think and the ausearch/aureport doesn't use those.?.

Thx,
LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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