On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:00:19 AM Tyler Hicks wrote: > Hello Steve - This is a patch set that allows --disable-listener to be > passed to the configure script to disable the auditd network listener code > at build time. The reasoning is that a large number of users do not need > centralized audit logging and removing the network listening code from a > root-owned auditd process is appealing from a security perspective. > > The existing implementation clearly does not initialize the listener when > tcp_listen_port is undefined in auditd.conf, but I still think there is > value in not having the listening code present in all auditd installations. > > The first three patches in the set are refactoring patches to move nearly > all of the listening code into auditd-listen.c in order to minimize the > number of ifdefs that would need to be scattered throughout C source files. > The fourth patch is an optional cleanup patch. The last patch introduces > the --disable-listener option. > > The auditd listener code is still enabled by default so that existing distro > packaging recipes will not need to be updated.
Applied. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
