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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: auditing file based capabilities
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:42:31 -0500
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Quoting Steve Grubb (sgrubb@redhat.com):
> On Monday 13 October 2008 10:04:27 Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Except I think setcap should also be audited, so that if a task receives
> > some inheritable capabilities, you can tell from the logs when that
> > happened and which executable did it.
> >
> > Do you already have a patch for this?
> 
> Would an audit rule for setxattrs cover the setting?

Sorry, I meant capset :)

A task changing its capability sets.  Particularly if it adds to pI (as
login/pam_cap will likely do).

-serge