[PATCH] audit: set context->dummy even when audit is off

Lenny Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Fri Nov 1 14:26:41 UTC 2019


On 11/1/19 9:16 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:

> This is the root of the problem. Journald should never turn on audit since it 
> has no idea if auditd even has rules to load. What if the end user does not 
> want auditing? By blindly enabling audit without knowing if its wanted, it 
> causes a system performance hit even with no rules loaded. It would be best 
> if journald leaves audit alone. If it wants to listen on the multicast 
> socket, so be it. It should just listen and not try to alter the system.

+1 for me, except I would also question why it would even listen, as to
me it seems that implies storage.

If that's true, I would want to be able to disable it as I do not want
audit events stored elsewhere as well.

Thx,

LCB

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Lenny Bruzenak
MagitekLTD




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