From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: audit-viewer "comm" question
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:15:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808041915.40752.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217890903.30693.423.camel@homeserver>
On Monday 04 August 2008 19:01:43 LC Bruzenak wrote:
> > type=USER_AVC msg=audit(08/04/2008 16:04:24.152:126492) : user pid=23501
> > uid=root auid=unset subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
> > msg='avc: denied { receive } for comm=(null) event=X11:PropertyNotify
> > scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0-s15:c0.c1023
> > tcontext=user_u:object_r:property_xevent_t:s4:c0,c2,c11,c200.c511
> > tclass=x_event : exe=/usr/bin/Xorg (sauid=root hostname=?, addr=?,
> > terminal=?)'
>
> I guess the question here is not why there is > 16 chars (since this is
> a USER_AVC not kernel-generated event - right?)
Yep.
> but rather why the GUI shows the comm but the ausearch doesn't.
I think I tried to work around the problem the SE Linux folks are creating and
then decided they need to fix the code since I am now violating the audit
standard by allowing for the mis-use of field encoding. They should probably
both show (null) until this gets fixing in libselinux.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 23:15 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 [this message]
2008-08-04 23:11 ` Steve Grubb
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