On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:10, Michael C Thompson wrote:
> Before the user has authenticated, the only point of failure which is
> policy related is obtaining the default type for a role if the type is
> left unspecified. I do not see this as an error worthy of auditing,
> since I frequently mistype my intended role.

I think we want to capture these since it would be a way for people to probe 
the policy without being caught.

> After this check, almost all subsequent points of failure are due to
> errors I would consider to be unexpected (e.g. ENOMEM), although some
> are due to relabeling the tty, which can fail in enforcing mode. We
> already have AVC messages which handle this, but should this failure be
> audited?

I think all failures due to user actions should be reported in audit message. 
Failures due to system resource exhaustion shouldn't be. The AVC does not 
substitute for a newrole originating message since you have to infer what the 
outcome was.

-Steve

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