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SubjectRe: [Part1 PATCH 00/22] Add namespace support for audit
On 06/21/2013 06:01 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:
>
>> On 06/20/2013 11:02 AM, Gao feng wrote:
>>> If we don't tie audit to user namespace, there is still one problem.
>>
>> One more problem. some audit messages are generated by some net subsystem
>> such as netfilter. If we don't tie audit to user namespace, we have no
>> idea where these audit messages should go. there is no relationship between
>> net namespace and audit namespace while we can get user namespace through
>> net user namespace.
>
> I am in favor of the user namespace tie in.
>
> I am in favor of running a per user namespace audit filter once per user
> namespace walking up the user namespace hierarchy. Each filter would
> deliver messages to a different userspace audit daemon.
>

Agree, this sounds reasonable.

> Until we agreement to go that far I am not certain the kernel generated
> audit messages should go anywhere except to the global audit daemon.

There are some audit messages that we sure where they should go, we can start
from them firstly.

>
> I think on an individual basis we can look at kernel audit messages and
> see if they should go to just the global user namespace. Just the user
> namspace of the relevant network stack. Or if the message should go to
> the audit daemon of every user namespace that is an ancestor of some
> starting user namespace.
>
> But please let's error on the side of caution here.
>
> Eric
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