auditing file based capabilities

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Oct 13 15:21:03 UTC 2008


On Monday 13 October 2008 10:04:27 Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Except I think setcap should also be audited, so that if a task receives
> some inheritable capabilities, you can tell from the logs when that
> happened and which executable did it.
>
> Do you already have a patch for this?

Would an audit rule for setxattrs cover the setting?

-Steve




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