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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: audit-viewer "comm" question
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:11:53 -0400
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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