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From: "Timothy R. Chavez" <tinytim@us.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Mounir Bsaibes <mbsaibes@us.ibm.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
	Klaus Weidner <klaus@atsec.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Daniel H Jones <danjones@us.ibm.com>,
	Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:08:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507071708.32451.tinytim@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1120771909.3198.32.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Thursday 07 July 2005 16:31, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:48 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 
> > Tim's code lets you say I want change notification to this file only. The 
> > notification follows the audit format with all relavant pieces of information 
> > gathered at the time of the event and serialized with all other events.
> 
> well can't you sort of do that based on (selinux) security context of
> the file already? after all that's part of the inode already. Isn't that
> finegrained enough?
> 

Provided you make it that far, yes, SE Linux _could_ be used to provide
similar functionality.  But, what if you bottom out on a DAC decision?

[foo@liltux /]$ cat /etc/shadow
cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied

-tim

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-07 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-06 16:54 [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-06 17:17 ` Greg KH
2005-07-06 20:23 ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-06 23:50   ` Greg KH
2005-07-07  1:33     ` Steve Grubb
2005-07-07 18:15       ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 18:49         ` Steve Grubb
2005-07-07 19:04           ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 19:48             ` Steve Grubb
2005-07-07 21:31               ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-07 22:08                 ` Timothy R. Chavez [this message]
2005-07-07 22:51                   ` serue
2005-07-08  5:33                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-08  5:48                       ` James Morris
2005-07-08 17:48               ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 16:26     ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-07 18:10       ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 18:16         ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-07 18:18           ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 19:49         ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-08 17:46           ` Greg KH
2005-07-08 19:48             ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-10 18:59               ` Greg KH
     [not found]                 ` <OF993CB74B.E135A576-ON8725703B.00568CD6-0525703B.005814C3@us.ibm.com>
2005-07-11 17:13                   ` Greg KH
2005-07-09  1:10   ` Chris Wright
2005-07-09  2:10     ` Timothy R. Chavez
2005-07-07  6:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-07  6:50   ` David Woodhouse

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