Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946576Ab2JDVbF (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:31:05 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:33781 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946512Ab2JDVbA (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2012 17:31:00 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 23:30:38 +0200 From: Stefan Richter To: Nick Bowler Cc: Kees Cook , Linus Torvalds , "Theodore Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.6 Message-ID: <20121004233038.2a4c1c10@stein> In-Reply-To: <20121004171602.GA20155@elliptictech.com> References: <20121003194614.GA2893@elliptictech.com> <20121003200515.GZ9092@outflux.net> <20121003204141.GB6026@thunk.org> <20121003204919.GA9092@outflux.net> <20121004133504.GA5599@elliptictech.com> <20121004154919.GE9092@outflux.net> <20121004160354.GA19347@elliptictech.com> <20121004161422.GF9092@outflux.net> <20121004171602.GA20155@elliptictech.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 35 On Oct 04 Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2012-10-04 09:14 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:03:54PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > > > On 2012-10-04 08:49 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > > > FWIW, there should have been an audit message about it in dmesg. > > > > > > There were zero messages in the kernel log. > > > > > > # dmesg -C > > > # cd /tmp > > > # mkdir testdir > > > # ln -s testdir testlink > > > # chown -h nobody testlink > > > # cd testlink > > > cd: permission denied: testlink > > > # dmesg > > > (no output) > > > > Well that's sad. :( Two situations I can think of for that: > > - the kernel wasn't build with CONFIG_AUDIT > > Indeed, I do not have this option enabled. Why would I have it? The > description says it's for SELinux, which I do not use. It says it is /among else/ for SELinux. Another user appears to be ConsoleKit, which wants CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL, which depends on CONFIG_AUDIT. -- Stefan Richter -=====-===-- =-=- --=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/