audit capability checks not audited

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue May 17 13:04:03 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 08:27 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> I know there was an earlier rfc/patch by Chris to allow moving the
> netlink message checking to the send side via a new callback, which
> would allow us to perform a traditional capable() call rather than a
> direct cap_raised() test and thus have the usual auditing behavior for
> SELinux there.  Is that stalled?

It was decided at the time that there was insufficient reason to make
such a change. I don't remember whether Chris had updated and completed
the patch by then or not; I suspect not.

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dwmw2




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