Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:22:55 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:16 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > --- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> wrote: > > > > No. The inode design is simply correct. > > If this were true audit records would not be required > to contain path names. Names are important. To meet > EAL requirements path names are demonstrably > insufficient, but so too are inode numbers. Unless > you want to argue that Linux is unevaluateable > (a pretty tough position to defend) because it > requires both in an audit record you cannot claim > either is definitive.
audit != SELinux, simple as that And yes audit on filenames is not too useful, but it is in some cases: Consider the case where you want to log that someone tried to unlink a file that doesn't exist. Inodes aren't going to do you any good ;)
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