No type=PATH record in FC6 audit?

[Yuichi Nakamura]

Hi,

I am playing with FC6-test3.
I installed audit, 
and found that type=PATH record does not appear in audit.log, 
when access is denied by SELinux.

Will type=PATH record disappear in FC6?

Yuichi Nakamura

[Stephen Smalley]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 23:09 +0900, Yuichi Nakamura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am playing with FC6-test3.
> I installed audit, 
> and found that type=PATH record does not appear in audit.log, 
> when access is denied by SELinux.
>
> Will type=PATH record disappear in FC6?

If you define any audit rules via auditctl (or put them
into /etc/audit/audit.rules for loading upon startup), then you should
see them again.  There is an optimization in the audit system to disable
collection of audit data like paths if there are no audit rules to avoid
the overhead associated with such collection.  This means you need at
least one audit rule defined to get that information.

[Yuichi Nakamura]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:29:55 -0400
Stephen Smalley  wrote:
> > I am playing with FC6-test3.
> > I installed audit, 
> > and found that type=PATH record does not appear in audit.log, 
> > when access is denied by SELinux.
> >
> > Will type=PATH record disappear in FC6?
>
> If you define any audit rules via auditctl (or put them
> into /etc/audit/audit.rules for loading upon startup), then you should
> see them again.  There is an optimization in the audit system to disable
> collection of audit data like paths if there are no audit rules to avoid
> the overhead associated with such collection.  This means you need at
> least one audit rule defined to get that information.

I have tried it now. 
PATH entry appeared by adding dummy audit rule.
Thank you.

Yuichi

[Steve G]

> Will type=PATH record disappear in FC6?

It is there, however we loose that record unless you have audit rules loaded.
This was part of some performance optimizations of the audit system so that it
can be on all the time for setroubleshootd.

-Steve

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