[PATCH 0/6][v2] audit: implement multicast socket for journald

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 04:09:46 UTC 2014


On 14/04/28, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Removing people that probably could care less about an audit event...
> 
> On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:57:55 PM Eric Paris wrote:
> > > Also, shouldn't we have an audit event for every attempt to connect to
> > > this  socket? We really need to know where this information is getting
> > > leaked to.
> >
> > We certainly can.  What would you like to see in that event?
> 
> I think it should be patterned after the other "standalone" kernel audit 
> events. We need pid, sesion, uid, auid, subj, comm, exe, and results. The 
> event type should be something like AUDIT_EVENT_LISTENER. I am wondering about 
> the usefulness of also adding op=connect op=disconnect to bracket the times 
> when something else was listening in on audit events.

I assume that order of these is not yet important and that gid should
also be in this list (which will let me use audit_log_task()).

> -Steve

- RGB

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