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From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] audit: implement generic feature setting and retrieving
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 13:20:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130530172056.GA7727@madcap2.tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369411910-13777-1-git-send-email-eparis@redhat.com>

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:11:44PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> The audit_status structure was not designed with extensibility in mind.
> Define a new AUDIT_SET_FEATURE message type which takes a new structure
> of bits where things can be enabled/disabled/locked one at a time.  This
> structure should be able to grow in the future while maintaining forward
> and backward compatibility (based loosly on the ideas from capabilities
> and prctl)
> 
> This does not actually add any features, but is just infrastructure to
> allow new on/off types of audit system features.

This is the sort of infrastructure that occured to me for the
audit_tty_status structure, when I implemented the password logging
switch...

> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

- RGB

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-30 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-24 16:11 [PATCH 1/7] audit: implement generic feature setting and retrieving Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:11 ` [PATCH 2/7] selinux: apply selinux checks on new audit message types Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:11 ` [PATCH 3/7] audit: loginuid functions coding style Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] audit: remove CONFIG_AUDIT_LOGINUID_IMMUTABLE Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] audit: allow unsetting the loginuid (with priv) Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:11 ` [PATCH 6/7] audit: audit feature to only allow unsetting the loginuid Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:11 ` [PATCH 7/7] audit: audit feature to set loginuid immutable Eric Paris
2013-07-08 20:34   ` Steve Grubb
2013-07-08 20:51     ` Eric Paris
2013-07-08 21:26       ` Steve Grubb
2013-07-08 21:32         ` Eric Paris
2013-07-09 22:24           ` Steve Grubb
2013-07-09 23:51             ` LC Bruzenak
2013-07-10 13:46               ` Steve Grubb
2013-07-10 14:32                 ` LC Bruzenak
2013-07-10 18:16                   ` Eric Paris
2013-07-10 18:51                     ` LC Bruzenak
2013-07-10 19:02                       ` LC Bruzenak
2013-07-10 19:09                       ` Eric Paris
2013-05-24 16:28 ` [PATCH 1/7] audit: implement generic feature setting and retrieving Eric Paris
2013-05-24 20:41   ` William Roberts
2013-05-24 20:56     ` William Roberts
2013-05-30 17:20 ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]
2013-07-08 20:28 ` Steve Grubb
2013-07-08 21:55   ` Eric Paris
2013-07-09  1:18     ` William Roberts
2013-07-09 18:30     ` Steve Grubb
2013-07-09 20:59       ` Eric Paris
2013-07-09 22:08 ` Steve Grubb
2013-11-02  7:26 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2013-11-02 14:44   ` Eric Paris
2014-08-22 21:58 ` Steve Grubb

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