From: Lenny Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Identifying thread/process termination
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 09:33:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c3736b4-c72e-fc87-90af-3d336a8a6c64@magitekltd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhThN4R7jsukKrmjVG=6Rm07jWwjcNQ5CS4v6JzMh+NQbg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/7/20 7:27 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> Almost everywhere in the kernel we record the TGID for the "pid="
> values and not the actual task/thread ID. That decision was made
> before my heavy involvement with audit, but my guess is that most
> audit users are focused more on security relevant events at the
> process level, not the thread level. After all, there isn't really
> much in the way of significant boundaries between threads.
That's right, Paul. The process (exe/comm) is the discriminator from a
security perspective.
LCB
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-08 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-05 19:07 Identifying thread/process termination Natan Yellin
2020-10-06 20:20 ` Steve Grubb
2020-10-08 1:27 ` Paul Moore
2020-10-08 7:59 ` Natan Yellin
2020-10-09 1:12 ` Paul Moore
2020-10-08 12:49 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-10-08 15:33 ` Lenny Bruzenak [this message]
2020-11-16 6:41 ` L. A. Walsh
2020-11-16 13:43 ` Paul Moore
2020-11-17 15:22 ` L A Walsh
2020-11-20 19:43 L. A. Walsh
2020-11-24 15:43 ` Lenny Bruzenak
2020-11-20 19:45 L. A. Walsh
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