From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael C Thompson <thompsmc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: What is expected: exclude action on the never list?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 15:45:26 -0500
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To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, Linux Audit <linux-audit@redhat.com>
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Hey Steve,

I'm doing some testing (a rare occurrence I know), and I've noticed that 
  when the active rules are:

auditctl -a entry,always -S chmod
auditctl -a exclude,always -F msgtype=SYSCALL

The chmod actions are not logged. Now this is what I would expect to 
happen when just reading those lines, not knowing about the internal 
workings of audit. However, if the rules are

auditctl -a entry,always -S chmod
auditctl -a exclude,never -F msgtype=SYSCALL

the chmod actions are not logged either. I would read the second rule as 
saying "do not exclude messages of type SYSCALL". Is this a correct 
interpretation of the rule?

Thanks,
Mike