LC Bruzenak wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:49 -0500, Jonathan Kelly wrote:
  
Hello,

 

When using the python auparse library to call
AuParser.interpret_field() on a multi-word field, only the first word
in the field is returned.  Using get_field_str() instead of
interpret_field() yields the same output.  I have verified that this
issue exists in the C library, as well as the Python.  I suspect that
this may be an issue for multi-word fields in general, but have not
noticed any other than 'op'.

 
    

Line forms here...see the following thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2008-June/msg00005.html

LCB.

  
The line started a while ago ...

https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2008-January/msg00082.html
(the discussion "While we're at it" is irrelevant to the current topic)

FWIW, I think the proper encoding should be that all string values are enclosed in double quotes and the string encoding follows the same backslash escaping defined for the C language which was subsequently adopted by many other system components which would make it instantly familiar and parseable by many tools. This would be a very simple and welcome fix.

More complaints here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2008-June/msg00009.html


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John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>