Executable permissions

[Karl MacMillan]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:00, Karl MacMillan wrote:
>> Is there a reason that the audit tools that take a file name paramater
>> (-if) are not executable by non-root users?
> 
> Current tools do not.
> 

[root at localhost ~]# ls -l /sbin/au*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root   3080 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/audispd*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  88216 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/auditctl*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  96068 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/auditd*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 102864 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/aureport*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 115420 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/ausearch*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  68816 Dec  1 11:37 /sbin/autrace*

[root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep audit
audit-libs-1.3-3.fc7
audit-1.3-3.fc7
audit-libs-python-1.3-3.fc7
audit-libs-devel-1.3-3.fc7

It's not the code, but rather the default permissions on the 
executables. So this might just be a packaging problem.

Thanks - Karl