selinux and udev ?

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Wed Nov 30 15:08:39 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 05:38 -0800, Steve G wrote:
> >You should do
> >
> >audit2allow -l  < /var/log/audit/audit.log
> 
> I would like to take this opportunity to point out that you should not be using
> the audit logs directly. ausearch is the correct way to access the logs. I would
> recommend:
> 
> ausearch -m avc,selinux_err | audit2allow -l
> 
> There's 3 reasons for this. 1) There may be more than 1 log file that needs to be
> examined. ausearch automatically looks at all of them. You can restrict its
> search by using the -ts & -te parameters. 2) Sometimes file names or sockets get
> encoded and cannot be read without ausearch's interpretation...and 3) we may be
> changing to binary log format at some point during fc5/6 time frame.

Hmm...this should likely get reflected in the audit2allow man page...

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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