Subject: [bug#54309] [PATCH] services: auditd: use exclusive log directory for auditd

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:30:36 +0100

fesoj000 schreef op zo 20-03-2022 om 21:22 [+0100]:
> > I cannot recommend this, what if 'mkdir-p' throws an exception?
> > That might cause problems.  Or maybe not, but it would require
> > some analysis that can be avoided with 'mkdir-p/perms'.
> Hm, but i still have to set umask to prevent TOCTOU, the
> implementation of 'mkdir-p/perms' does not take care of that.

mkdir-p/perms could be modified to take care of that.
If that is done, then other users of mkdir-p/perms would benefit as
well.

To implement this, I recommend using the prodecures from
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2021-11/msg00005.html>
-- that patch was written to remove the TOCTOU!

Greetings,
Maxime.