[redhat-lspp] auditing labeled ipsec

Paul Moore paul.moore at hp.com
Wed Oct 11 20:58:07 UTC 2006


Joy Latten wrote:
> Linux provides two apis to add/delete/manage SAs and spd.
> One is netlink which was extended to do key management. The 
> other is pfkeyv2, which our setkey and racoon uses.
> 
> With all that said, I am not able to figure out how to get "auid" from
> pfkeyv2? I can use NETLINK_CB(skb).loginuid to get it when netlink is
> used, but I don't think I can use this for pfkeyv2 since I am not using
> netlink headers. I am using pfkey message headers, such as sadb_msg,
> which don't include this. 
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?

While it's been a looong time since I looked at PFKEY I believe you can get away
with plucking the loginuid from the current task, yes?  no?

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paul moore
linux security @ hp




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