[PATCH] audit=0 appears not to completely disable auditing

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon Apr 2 19:17:01 UTC 2007


On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:57:11 EDT, Amy Griffis said:
> Steve Grubb wrote:  [Thu Mar 22 2007, 05:55:45PM EDT]
> > > If you want audit_enabled=0 to turn off audit completely, do you also
> > > want to drop selinux messages?
> > 
> > No, the SE Linux folks want avc messages at all times unless the admin 
> > specifically sets a rule to suppress them. 
> 
> Okay, makes sense. Do you think audit should return an error if
> someone tries to add a rule when audit_enabled=0 ?

Yes, probably.  You'd kind of think that the human doing the auditing would
like a large and loud complaint if auditing had been accidentally disabled.

The only question is what behavior it should have if a site (for whatever
reason) decides to first load all the rules, then enable auditing (possibly
to avoid spurious complaints about processes because not all the rules have
been loaded yet).
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