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Message-ID: <20121004233038.2a4c1c10@stein>
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.
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