[PATCH] LOGIN message credentials

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Apr 25 16:29:31 UTC 2005


On Monday 25 April 2005 12:22, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> OK.. I'll bite - why wasn't audit_get_context called?

Because this normally happens at login. The login process may not be audited 
depending on the rules.

> Unless we've looked at it and decided that it's a reasonable thing to
> happen, your patch is just papering over a bug that will come back to bite
> us later... 

Its harmless. Calling audit_get_context is too heavy for the job at hand.

-Steve




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