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From: Michael Mather <michael.mather@teksavvy.com>
Subject: Re: Sucess or failure?
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:18:17 -0400
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Thanks for the replies.

The problem is that the PCI requirements say:

10.3 Record at least the following audit trail entries for all system
components for each event:
...
10.3.4 Success or failure indication.

I don't know if PCI would accept the notion that this was success.

Michael
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On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 07:52 +0200, yersinia wrote:
> >From the point of view of the linux kernel, and of the audit, you have
> the right to execute the cp, you don't have permission denied. So the
> result is success.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> 2012/7/22, Michael Mather <michael.mather@teksavvy.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I enter the command "sudo cp qwerty /etc/xxx"
> > and get the reply:  "cp: cannot stat `qwerty': No such file or directory."
> >
> > A number of log entries are written. The last two are, in part:
> >
> > type=SYSCALL success=yes
> > type=EXECVE  argc=3 a0="cp" a1="qwerty" a2="/etc/xxx"
> >
> > My problem is with "success=yes".
> >
> > What is happening?
> >
> > Thanks - Michael Mather
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