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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Executable permissions
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:11:41 -0500
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On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:00, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> Is there a reason that the audit tools that take a file name paramater
> (-if) are not executable by non-root users?

Current tools do not.

[root src]# grep getuid *.c
auditctl.c:             if (getuid() != 0) {
auditctl.c:             if (getuid() != 0) {

Must be root to send netlink

auditd.c:       if (getuid() != 0) {

Must be root to read netlink

autrace.c:      if (getuid() != 0) {

Must be root to write to netlink.

-Steve