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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Expanding PATH records to be absolute paths
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:34:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709121434.29742.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189620898.4764.52.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:14:58 Matthew Booth wrote:
> If I were going to do this from scratch, I'd cache CWD records and
> rewrite PATH records on the way through. I don't believe any other
> record requires this. AVC paths are already absolute, and I don't think
> there are any other paths. Is this right?

seems like its something like:

char *tpath, *actual;

asprintf(&tpath, "%s/%s", cwd, path);
actual = realpath(tpath, NULL);
if (actual) {
	// whatever you want to do with the canonicalized absolute pathname.
	free(actual);
}
free(tpath);


HTH,
-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-12 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12 18:14 Expanding PATH records to be absolute paths Matthew Booth
2007-09-12 18:34 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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