On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 23:09 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Why does the dbus-daemon want to read the cmdline of every process that it
> talks to? Is it something to allow or dontaudit? It appears to work without
> allowing it.
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1236168464.840:83): avc: denied { search } for pid=2757
> comm="dbus-daemon" name="2874" dev=proc ino=12535
> scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=dir
> type=AVC msg=audit(1236168464.840:83): avc: denied { read } for pid=2757
> comm="dbus-daemon" name="cmdline" dev=proc ino=12536
> scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=file
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1236168464.840:83): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=yes
> exit=16 a0=b8481fa0 a1=0 a2=b3a a3=b84826c0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=2757
> auid=4294967295 uid=103 gid=105 euid=103 suid=103 fsuid=103 egid=105 sgid=105
> fsgid=105 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="dbus-daemon"
> exe="/usr/bin/dbus-daemon"
> subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
It appears to fetch that information for logging purposes (comm= field).
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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