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From: "Timothy R. Chavez" <tinytim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:08:31 -0500
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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