From: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: proc_loginuid_write() checks wrong capability?
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:53:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206195332.GD6698@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170788918.12293.422.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Setting the loginuid of a process is a form of "control" over the audit
> system, as the loginuid is the basis for user accountability in the
> audit framework. It differs from merely generating a user audit
> message. There was some discussion of introducing a third audit
> capability, but no support for it.
Ah, thanks Stephen and Casey, for explaining the reasoning. It does have
the unfortunate side effect of causing CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to be needed
more widely than one might expect.
--
Steve Beattie
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
<sbeattie@suse.de>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-06 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-06 18:27 proc_loginuid_write() checks wrong capability? Steve Beattie
2007-02-06 19:08 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-06 19:53 ` Steve Beattie [this message]
2007-02-06 21:47 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-02-06 19:15 ` Casey Schaufler
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