Re: Linux 3.6

[Stefan Richter]

On Oct 04 Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2012-10-04 09:14 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:03:54PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > > On 2012-10-04 08:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > FWIW, there should have been an audit message about it in dmesg.
> > > 
> > > There were zero messages in the kernel log.
> > > 
> > >   # dmesg -C
> > >   # cd /tmp
> > >   # mkdir testdir
> > >   # ln -s testdir testlink
> > >   # chown -h nobody testlink
> > >   # cd testlink
> > >   cd: permission denied: testlink
> > >   # dmesg
> > >   (no output)
> > 
> > Well that's sad. :( Two situations I can think of for that:
> > - the kernel wasn't build with CONFIG_AUDIT
> 
> Indeed, I do not have this option enabled.  Why would I have it?  The
> description says it's for SELinux, which I do not use.

It says it is /among else/ for SELinux.  Another user appears to be
ConsoleKit, which wants CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL, which depends on CONFIG_AUDIT.
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