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Bug#287100: CONFIG_AUDIT is indeed fairly critical for



Hi,

        CONFIG_AUDIT is required to have Se-Linux be usefully
 deployed, since without tht we can't even test any other aspect of
 Se-Linux functionality in the Debian kernel image packages. Without
 audit, any modifications needed to policy are hard to discover, since
 policy violations are just silently blocked -- even if that is not
 the desired option. Also, as a user, it is nice to know when attempts
 are made that violate security polices ;-)

	Indeed, this is what Kconfig says in 2.6.10:
======================================================================
config AUDIT
        bool "Auditing support"
        default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
        default n
        help
          Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
          kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
          logging of avc messages output).  Does not do system-call
          auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
======================================================================

	Adding AUDIT has a very minimal affect on the size of the
 resulting image.

	manoj
-- 
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta@debian.org>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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