Here are the capabilities we currently give to sysadm_t with sysadm_secadm 1.0.0 Disabled allow sysadm_t sysadm_t : capability { chown dac_override dac_read_search fowner fsetid kill setgid setuid setpcap linux_immutable net_bind_service net_broadcast net_admin net_raw ipc_lock ipc_owner sys_rawio sys_chroot sys_ptrace sys_pacct sys_admin sys_boot sys_nice sys_resource sys_time sys_tty_config mknod lease audit_write setfcap } ; allow sysadm_t sysadm_t : capability { setgid setuid sys_chroot } allow sysadm_t sysadm_t : capability2 { syslog block_suspend } ; cap_audit_write might be a problem? On 04/22/2014 11:57 PM, Eric Paris wrote: > On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 22:25 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 09:31:52 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>> This is a patch set Eric Paris and I have been working on to add a >>> restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket to kernel audit to >>> enable userspace clients such as systemd/journald to receive audit logs, in >>> addition to the bidirectional auditd userspace client. >> Do have the ability to separate of secadm_r and sysadm_r? By allowing this, we >> will leak to a sysadmin that he is being audited by the security officer. In a >> lot of cases, they are one in the same person. But for others, they are not. I >> have a feeling this will cause problems for MLS systems. > Why? This requires CAP_AUDIT_READ. Just don't give CAP_AUDIT_READ to > places you don't want to have read permission. Exactly the same as you > don't give CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to sysadm_r. (If we are giving > CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to sysadm_r and you think that any file protections > on /var/log/audit/audit.log are adequate we are fooling ourselves!) > >> Also, shouldn't we have an audit event for every attempt to connect to this >> socket? We really need to know where this information is getting leaked to. > We certainly can. What would you like to see in that event? > > -Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Selinux mailing list > Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. > To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > _______________________________________________ Selinux mailing list Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.