Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: log join and part events to the read-only multicast log socket

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Tue Oct 21 2014 - 12:41:19 EST


On 14/10/07, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 14/10/07, Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:23 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > > Log the event when a client attempts to connect to the netlink audit multicast
> > > socket, requiring CAP_AUDIT_READ capability, binding to the AUDIT_NLGRP_READLOG
> > > group. Log the disconnect too.

> > super crazy yuck. audit_log_task_info() ??
>
> I agree. I already suggested that a while ago. I'd love to. sgrubb
> thinks it dumps way too much info. We still haven't got a definitive
> answer about what is enough and what is too much info for any given type
> of record.
>
> I also thought of moving audit_log_task() from auditsc.c to audit.c
> and using that. For that matter, both audit_log_task() and
> audit_log_task_info() could use audit_log_session_info(), but they are
> in slightly different order of keywords which will upset sgrubb's
> parser.
>
> What to do?
>
> Another paragraph I'd like to see added to
> http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/audit-parse.txt
> would be a "canonical order" of keywords. However, that discussion went
> nowhere. Would it be reasonable to suggest only two possible orders
> instead of the almost infinite iterations possible and declare a
> standard order of keywords and gradually move to it?

Steve,

Can we agree to *two* orders (instead of the full set of iterations) for
these keywords so that we can start to sort things in a canonical order?
This random order per type of audit log message is chaos.

> - RGB

- RGB

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