On Friday 20 March 2009 04:53:27 am Miloslav Trmac wrote:
----- "Paul Moore" <paul.moore(a)hp.com> wrote:
> There are several audit experts which should review this code but two
> things jumped out at me when glancing at your patch:
>
> 1. SELinux SIDs should not be recorded
Almost all code that logs SELinux contexts in kernel/audit* does the same
thing as this patch, falling back to a SID if it can't be converted to a
string.
Ungh, that's ugly and questionably useful (I suppose I know why this is done)
but if that convention then who am I to argue.
> 2. From a SELinux/security point of view ttys are considered
objects
> and their labels/contexts should be recorded with "obj=" not
> "subj="
The patch logs the context of the process, not of the TTY.
Okay, that is what I get for just glancing at patches and not looking at them
closer :)
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paul moore
linux @ hp