On 2020-04-17 21:21, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fr, 17.04.20 14:57, Richard Guy Briggs ([email protected]) wrote:
> 
> > > Well, we try hard to not step on your toes and do not use the unicast
> > > stuff and do not pretend to be auditd, so that auditd can be installed
> > > and run in parallel to journald with us being in the backseat. It's my
> > > understanding that the mcast stuff was added for this kind of thing,
> > > except that it never became useful, since it also means that kmsg is
> > > spammed by audit.
> >
> > Where your claim falls flat is that systemd/journald is stepping on
> > auditd's toes by enabling audit.  Enabling audit is auditd's job.
> 
> Again, we are interested in the audit information, because we think
> it's useful. If we wouldn't enable audit in the kernel we wouldn't get
> it. Hence we enable audit.

But you are getting it via klog.  This is what is causing the problem.

> (But see: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15444 — with that
> it's now configurable, but it still defaults to on, because we
> actually think the data is useful, and we think it's useful event
> without auditd around, regardless if that's because we run in the
> earliest initrd where there never is auditd around or because we run
> during normal operation and auditd is simply not installed.)
> 
> Lennart

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