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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: "Vaughn, Chad M" <chad.m.vaughn@lmco.com>
Cc: "linux-audit@redhat.com" <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Audit watches on NFS mounts
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:37:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14342226.LmfWeh2Ifs@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E594E682CA7FE04DAD586665D2142F742D6C60FA@HDXDSP53.us.lmco.com>

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 2:42:07 PM EDT Vaughn, Chad M wrote:
> I noticed a weird behavior. I NFS mount /usr/local on my Redhat machines.
> 
> If I put a watch for a directory in that NFS mount:
> 
> -w /usr/local/mywatchdir/ -p rwxa -F exit!=-ENODATA -F success!=1 -k watch
> 
> On Redhat 6.4, I don't see audit events when trying to remove or change
> files in that dir. On Redhat 6.8, I do see the audit events when trying to
> remove or changes files in that dir.
> 
> Any ideas of possible features added to auditd between those releases?  I
> would like to be able to speak to it for security audits.

Auditd is just the collector. The events are generated by the kernel. So, it 
would be a kernel change that may have allowed that. I don't know what was 
changed or which version did it. I do know that in the past it was not 
possible to audit nfs or fuse based file systems.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20 14:42 Audit watches on NFS mounts Vaughn, Chad M
2016-10-20 15:37 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2016-10-20 16:10   ` EXTERNAL: " Vaughn, Chad M
2016-10-20 16:22     ` Steve Grubb

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