DWIM audit tools

DWIM audit tools

[Matthew Booth]

Has anybody been looking at making writing audit rules a bit more DWIM. 
E.g. when the user types:

auditctl -a entry,always -S stat

what they almost certainly meant was:

auditctl -a entry,always -F arch=i386 -S oldstat -S oldfstat -S ustat -S 
oldlstat -S stat -S lstat -S fstat -S stat64 -S lstat64 -S fstat64
auditctl -a entry,always -F arch=x86_64 -S stat -S fstat -S lstat -S 
ustat [1]

It would be really helpful if this kind of knowlege was encapsulated 
somewhere. If you were going to put it into auditctl, I suspect you'd 
want a separate switch for it so you could still be specific if you 
needed it. Is anybody looking at anything like this?

Matt

[1] If anybody points out an error in here, they're just making my point 
for me :P
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