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Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:30:38 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Linux 3.6 On Oct 04 Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2012-10-04 09:14 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:03:54PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > > > On 2012-10-04 08:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > FWIW, there should have been an audit message about it in dmesg. > > > > > > There were zero messages in the kernel log. > > > > > > # dmesg -C > > > # cd /tmp > > > # mkdir testdir > > > # ln -s testdir testlink > > > # chown -h nobody testlink > > > # cd testlink > > > cd: permission denied: testlink > > > # dmesg > > > (no output) > > > > Well that's sad. :( Two situations I can think of for that: > > - the kernel wasn't build with CONFIG_AUDIT > > Indeed, I do not have this option enabled. Why would I have it? The > description says it's for SELinux, which I do not use. It says it is /among else/ for SELinux. Another user appears to be ConsoleKit, which wants CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL, which depends on CONFIG_AUDIT. -- Stefan Richter -=====-===-- =-=- --=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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