From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: pbriggs@ll.mit.edu
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: "Watch"ing a directory
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:36:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708221036.35928.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187792258.3151.108.camel@prudence.llan.ll.mit.edu>
On Wednesday 22 August 2007 10:17:37 Pete Briggs wrote:
> Is there any way to put a watch on a directory,
Sort of...RHEL5.1 will have subtree auditing working in it. Al Viro also sent
the patch upstream and should land in 2.6.23 or 24.
> so that an audit record will be generated if anyone cd's to that directory.
Not for cd'ing into a directory. They have to attempt to read, write, change
an attribute, or execute a file.
> I've tried things like:
>
> -w /etc/audit/ -k ACCESS_AUDIT
That is how you would watch a directory with current audit package and kernel
with the subtree auditing patch.
> but the rule never seems to get invoked. I'm running FC7 with
> audit-1.5.3
They have to actually do something for it to trip...assuming you have a kernel
that supports it.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 15:13 Auditing failed kill events Henning, Arthur C. (CSL)
2007-08-21 15:50 ` Steve Grubb
2007-08-21 17:50 ` Henning, Arthur C. (CSL)
2007-08-21 18:16 ` Steve Grubb
2007-08-21 21:19 ` Henning, Arthur C. (CSL)
2007-08-22 14:17 ` "Watch"ing a directory Pete Briggs
2007-08-22 14:36 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2007-08-22 15:40 ` Pete Briggs
2007-08-22 16:03 ` Steve Grubb
2007-08-22 20:37 ` Wieprecht, Karen M.
2007-08-22 14:40 ` Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
2007-08-22 14:59 ` Steve Grubb
2007-08-22 15:03 ` Eric Paris
2007-08-22 15:05 ` Ameel Kamboh
2007-08-22 16:09 ` Steve Grubb
2007-08-22 20:16 ` Ameel Kamboh
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