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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: audit in /selinux directory
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:23:47 -0500
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On Friday 09 March 2007 14:31, Camilo Y. Campo wrote:
> The cat command failed and audit is saying "success". A bit strange for
> me. Could anybody clarify this point for me, please?

It works correctly for me:

fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
open("/selinux/disable", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
write(2, "cat: ", 5cat: )                    = 5

type=PATH msg=audit(03/09/2007 15:21:10.652:947) : item=0 
name=/selinux/disable inode=13 dev=00:0e mode=file,200 ouid=root ogid=root 
rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:security_t:s0 
type=CWD msg=audit(03/09/2007 15:21:10.652:947) :  cwd=/home/sgrubb 
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(03/09/2007 15:21:10.652:947) : arch=i386 syscall=open 
success=no exit=-13(Permission denied) a0=bfca4954 a1=8000 a2=0 a3=8000 
items=1 ppid=4740 pid=4741 auid=sgrubb uid=sgrubb gid=sgrubb euid=sgrubb 
suid=sgrubb fsuid=sgrubb egid=sgrubb sgid=sgrubb fsgid=sgrubb tty=pts0 
comm=cat exe=/bin/cat subj=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 key=(null) 

Try running with strace so you can see the open syscall.

-Steve