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

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Oct 21 2014 - 18:30:34 EST


On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 03:56:10 PM Steve Grubb wrote:
> audit_log_task_info logs too much information for typical use. There are
> times when you might want to know everything about what's connecting. But
> in this case, we don't need anything about groups, saved uids, fsuid, or
> ppid.
>
> Its a shame we don't have a audit_log_task_info_light function which only
> records:
>
> pid= auid= uid= subj= comm= exe= ses= tty=

This is getting back to my earlier concerns/questions about field ordering, or
at the very least I'm going to hijack this conversation and steer it towards
field ordering ;)

Before we go to much farther, I'd really like us to agree that ordering is not
important, can we do that? As a follow up, what do we need to do to make that
happen in the userspace tools?

--
paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat

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