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From: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auditd: fix missing space with enriched log format
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:52:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915145228.2wz3s7ok7eggdujj@cyberdelia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11826656.O9o76ZdvQC@x2>

On 09/14, Steve Grubb wrote:
>On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 9:55:48 PM EDT Enzo Matsumiya wrote:
>> When audit.log is opened with cat or less, for example, with log format
>> = ENRICHED, there's no space between data and the enriched part, only
>> AUDIT_INTERP_SEPARATOR (0x1d):
>
>This is by design.

I understand that, and the patch doesn't break it.

>> type=USER_CMD msg=audit(1631669179.082:2403): ... res=success'UID="enzo"
>> AUID="unset" ^ (0x1d)
>>
>> sep_done should be checked if it's 1 as well, so a space is added before
>> the first enriched field.
>
>Why?

Some people still rely on opening audit.log with tools that are not aware
of the log format.

As far as I could test, the change is only cosmetic, as I expected. I did a
basic test with ausearch and it was ok.

Please clarify if you expect anything else to be affected by this
change.


Cheers,

Enzo

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-15 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15  1:55 [PATCH] auditd: fix missing space with enriched log format Enzo Matsumiya
2021-09-15  3:32 ` Steve Grubb
2021-09-15 14:52   ` Enzo Matsumiya [this message]
2021-09-15 17:44     ` Steve Grubb
2021-09-15 17:55       ` Enzo Matsumiya

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