Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 21:24:05 -0400 | From | Richard Guy Briggs <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] audit: log join and part events to the read-only multicast log socket |
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On 14/10/21, Paul Moore wrote: > On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 03:56:10 PM Steve Grubb wrote: > > audit_log_task_info logs too much information for typical use. There are > > times when you might want to know everything about what's connecting. But > > in this case, we don't need anything about groups, saved uids, fsuid, or > > ppid. > > > > Its a shame we don't have a audit_log_task_info_light function which only > > records: > > > > pid= auid= uid= subj= comm= exe= ses= tty= > > This is getting back to my earlier concerns/questions about field ordering, or > at the very least I'm going to hijack this conversation and steer it towards > field ordering ;)
Well, I've already been pushing it that way because it interferes with any sort of refactoring that needs to be done to simplify and clean up the kernel log code.
> Before we go to much farther, I'd really like us to agree that ordering is not > important, can we do that? As a follow up, what do we need to do to make that > happen in the userspace tools?
At the very least, as I've suggested, agree on at least one more order, a canonical one, that can provide a much more firm guide how to present the keywords so that we're not stuck with an arbitrary order that turns out not to make sense for some reason or another.
> paul moore
- RGB
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