On Friday 29 August 2008 6:00:46 am Subrata Modak wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:04 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 August 2008 9:44:35 am Subrata Modak wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 20:46 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 26 August 2008 7:18:22 pm James Morris wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > > > > > Hi James,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As i have talked to the SE-Linux mini summit during OLS
> > > > > > 2008, regarding testing all components of LSM, i would like
> > > > > > to know if you would like to share testing the AUDIT LSM in
> > > > > > kernel. If possible i would like to get them integrated
> > > > > > inside LTP under GPLv2. Let me know what you think about
> > > > > > this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sounds like a good idea.  Who is going to do what?
> > > >
> > > > I agree, testing is always good.  That said I'm not sure how
> > > > much I will be able to help in the near future.  We here at HP
> > > > did release some audit tests from our recent Common Criteria
> > > > certifications on SourceForge[1] which may or may-not be
> > > > helpful.  The don't utilize the LTP framework but they may
> > > > provide some test development ideas.
> > >
> > > It is perfectly Ok, if some tests do not obey the LTP framework,
> > > but they still exist inside LTP. You can see that for yourself
> > > here:
> > >
> > > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/,
> > >
> > > While testcases like open_posix, open_hpi, kdump, ballista,
> > > pounder21, realtime, etc do not follow LTP framework. Hence
> > > during LTP releases, these are also released as separate tarballs
> > > apart from being part of the main release tarball as well. So,
> > > people who use all the tests will download the main release,
> > > others do selective downloads.
> > >
> > > What you see inside the
> > > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/, sub
> > > directory are the actual test cases which follow the LTP
> > > framework. In fact if there are tests which just return
> > > 0/non-zero on PASS/FAIL is a suitable candidate for initial
> > > inclusion into absolute LTP framework.
> >
> > Hi Subrata,
> >
> > Yes, we've used the LTP testsuite in the past and I want to thank
> > you and everyone in the LTP community for their work in producing
> > such a through test suite.
>
> Thanks. The credit for this should go to the early maintainers like
> Robert Williamson, Paul Larson, Martin Ridgeway, Micheal Reed, Nathan
> Stratz, Manoj Iyer, and others who did a tremendous work during that
> time. I have just taken over from them newly.
>
> > > Even during the last FOSS 2007 meeting, i had a talk with James
> > > and he said that HP has released Common Criteria certifications.
> > > I was wondering that i had done only for IBM´s and SGI´s Common
> > > Criteria Certification testsuite release, not for HP:
> > >
> > > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3382,
> > >
> > > So, wouldn´t it be better to put audit-test somewhere here:
> > > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/,
> > >
> > > or, more better here:
> > > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/security/
> > >,
> > >
> > > If you give me a thumbsup for this, initially i would request a
> > > DCO signoff mail (my legal obligations) from you to ltp-list.
> > > Nexttime onwards, whenever you update your releases in
> > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/audit-test, i can automatically
> > > pull the diff inside LTP. Do you think that this can be a nice
> > > beginning ?
> >
> > At this point in time we are not interested in moving the
> > audit-test sources to the LTP project; however, we would support
> > posting audit-test releases along with the other Common Criteria
> > test suites. This should be possible without any paperwork since
> > the audit-test project is GPLv2 licensed.  If that is not
> > sufficient please send me whatever paperwork/signoff/email is
> > necessary and I will take a look at it and get back to you.
>
> Sure, you can always do that. No paper work in required. If you are
> doing it through e-mail, then just signoff that mail to ltp-list.
> Else you can also post things to Sf.net tracker like this:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1942286&gro
>up_id=3382&atid=303382,
>
> Thanks for initiating this co-operation. We can explore other things
> in future as well.

Excellent, thank you.  The latest release of the audit-test project can 
be downloaded at the link below.

 * http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167060

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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