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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: audit-viewer "comm" question
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:11:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808041911.53650.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217890182.30693.417.camel@homeserver>

On Monday 04 August 2008 18:49:42 LC Bruzenak wrote:
> After reading Steve's info about the "comm" field being clipped at 16
> chars, I was surprised to see a longer string inside the audit-viewer
> "comm" field.

If the event below is where it came from, then it originated in user space and 
is not subject to the 16 byte kernel limitation.

> The same event in ausearch shows a NULL "comm" field, but the rest of
> the info lines up with the GUI:

The user space AVCs are FUBAR and I told the SE Linux people that they are not 
following the audit logging convention. They need to fix the code in 
libselinux.

-Steve

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-04 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 22:49 audit-viewer "comm" question LC Bruzenak
2008-08-04 23:01 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-04 23:15   ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-04 23:11 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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