Ubuntu
audit package

promote audit to main

Bug #406226 reported by Timo Aaltonen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
audit (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Kees Cook

Bug Description

libaudit-dev is a build-dependency of xorg-server now, therefore audit should be moved to main. It's build-deps include libev-dev and libprelude-dev, so libev and libprelude would neet to be promoted as well.

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lp:ubuntu/natty/xorg-server
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReport/audit

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in audit (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Kees Cook (kees)
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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

We will need MIRs for the other source packages. I'd like to investigate if it is possible to de-root this service, as well. Since it just opens a netlink and saves a file, it should be possible to drop privs.

Changed in audit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Closing this for now, since auditd is no longer a requirement for Xorg.

Changed in audit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

it never was a hard requirement, just something that debian enables and remains a diff compared to them...

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