dac_override and dac_read_search ... again!

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 08/04/2010 02:07 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>> You have some file that has ownereship such that root can not access the
>> file via permissions.
>>
>> You need to turn on full auditing to get the path of the offending file.
>>
>> Execute
>>
>> auditctl -w /etc/shadow -p w
>>
>> And see if you can generate the error again.  Then you should get a path
>> with the next avc message.
>>   
> As far as I know, for this to work I would need to have auditd running, 
> isn't that the case? As I pointed in my initial post, auditd cannot start!
> 
> OK, I can force permissive mode, then start auditd, switch back to 
> enforced mode and then execute auditctl. Then, may be, I could find the 
> offending path/files causing the issues with the other programs I have 
> listed in my logs, but how do I deal with the auditd itself? auditctl 
> requires auditd to be running in order to show the paths, isn't that not 
> the case?
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I would boot the machine in permissive mode and with the audit flag set.
 You should still get the audit messages and the PATH message.

Most likely this is a file in /etc/  Likely candidates would be
something like resolv.conf, services hosts.
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