[redhat-lspp] Re: RHEL5 Kernel with labeled networking

Karl MacMillan kmacmillan at mentalrootkit.com
Wed Oct 4 16:28:47 UTC 2006


Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 16:40, Linda Knippers wrote:
>   
>>> Dang! Why didn't I think of that! :-)
>>> Such a good idea. I will do a quick test and
>>> show Klaus and see if it all looks ok to him.
>>> Thanks!!!
>>>       
>> If we go the auditallow route then we lose some audit record management
>> features, like the ability to enable/disble/search for these records,
>> don't we?  Do we care?
>>     
>
> Yes we care! And we should not do it with auditallow rules. The problem is 
> that to SE linux, EVERYTHING is an AVC. There is no separation of meaning by 
> using the message type. If an admin wants to query to see all the config 
> changes made during a range of time, using AVC's will not be considered in 
> the results.
>
>   

I don't understand - the object class and / or permissions will allow 
filtering and separating out the various types of AVC messages.

Karl




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