Re: [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name

From: Timothy R. Chavez
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 17:17:27 EST


On Thursday 07 July 2005 16:31, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:48 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
>
> > Tim's code lets you say I want change notification to this file only. The
> > notification follows the audit format with all relavant pieces of information
> > gathered at the time of the event and serialized with all other events.
>
> well can't you sort of do that based on (selinux) security context of
> the file already? after all that's part of the inode already. Isn't that
> finegrained enough?
>

Provided you make it that far, yes, SE Linux _could_ be used to provide
similar functionality. But, what if you bottom out on a DAC decision?

[foo@liltux /]$ cat /etc/shadow
cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied

-tim
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