From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Build time disabling of auditd network listener
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:39:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120910183910.GB3873@boyd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343804424-3172-1-git-send-email-tyhicks@canonical.com>
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On 2012-08-01 00:00:19, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> Hello Steve - This is a patch set that allows --disable-listener to be passed
> to the configure script to disable the auditd network listener code at build
> time. The reasoning is that a large number of users do not need centralized
> audit logging and removing the network listening code from a root-owned auditd
> process is appealing from a security perspective.
>
> The existing implementation clearly does not initialize the listener when
> tcp_listen_port is undefined in auditd.conf, but I still think there is value
> in not having the listening code present in all auditd installations.
Hi Steve - Do you have any thoughts on this idea? Thanks!
Tyler
>
> The first three patches in the set are refactoring patches to move nearly all of
> the listening code into auditd-listen.c in order to minimize the number of
> ifdefs that would need to be scattered throughout C source files. The fourth
> patch is an optional cleanup patch. The last patch introduces the
> --disable-listener option.
>
> The auditd listener code is still enabled by default so that existing distro
> packaging recipes will not need to be updated.
>
> I look forward to your feedback. Thanks!
>
> Tyler
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-10 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-01 7:00 [PATCH 0/5] Build time disabling of auditd network listener Tyler Hicks
2012-08-01 7:00 ` [PATCH 1/5] Move auditd listener reconfigure code into auditd-listen.c Tyler Hicks
2012-08-01 7:00 ` [PATCH 2/5] Store daemon config pointer in the periodic watcher's private data Tyler Hicks
2012-08-01 7:00 ` [PATCH 3/5] Move periodic watcher into auditd-listen.c Tyler Hicks
2012-08-01 7:00 ` [PATCH 4/5] Consolidate periodic handler code Tyler Hicks
2012-08-01 7:00 ` [PATCH 5/5] Conditionally build auditd network listener support Tyler Hicks
2012-09-10 18:39 ` Tyler Hicks [this message]
2012-09-11 13:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] Build time disabling of auditd network listener Steve Grubb
2012-09-11 17:10 ` Tyler Hicks
2012-10-26 17:09 ` Tyler Hicks
2012-10-26 17:14 ` Steve Grubb
2012-11-05 14:17 ` Steve Grubb
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