Current directory for audit names.

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Thu May 26 21:37:59 UTC 2005


--- David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> > What about the current root? You need all of
> > the root, the current working directory, and
> > the requested path to have the complete path.
> 
> Maybe. Only root can change that though, so it's
> less important.

I'd say it's less likely to have been changed.

On a shared server with multiple chrooted
apache environments wouldn't you want to know
which cgi bin contains the hacked binary?

> We don't handle namespaces either.

That's kind of important, don't you think?

> I can add the root if there's consensus that it
> would be useful.

The Unix experiance is that it's important.



Casey Schaufler
casey at schaufler-ca.com

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