/etc/security/audit_warn -- where to log to by default?

fergus fergus at cobbled.net
Wed Jan 26 10:55:14 GMT 2005


On 25.01-09:34, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote:
[ ... ]
>                     What can we do with syslogd? Give it permission to
> change its' own label. Set the label of /var/run/log to "*/equal". So
> everybody can write to the log. Now syslog reads data and decides which
> log it must be stored to. Then it changes own label to be equal to the
> appropriate log and writes to it.

this would be very insecure.  the privilage your talking about
(arbitary label switching) would basically give the box away.

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