Adding enterprise capability - an includeConfig directive for audit.rules?

[Burn Alting <burn@swtf.dyndns.org>]

All,

Has anyone considered allowing an includeConfig statement for
audit.rules (or auditd.conf if need be)?

The action would be to, at that point in the parse (or the end of the
file, if auditd.conf holds the directive), open the nominated directory
and any files within, and parse them.

The idea is to allow for localization of audit. At an enterprise level
one would deploy the common, corporate set of rules
in /etc/audit/audit.rules. Should a local system need additional rules
such as tailored file watches, workstation or capability specific
monitoring, these could appear in files in the includeConfig directory.
That way, distribution mechanisms such as puppet, rpm satellite server,
apt repositories, etc can maintain the corporate set of rules without
changing localized configurations on updates.

I'm happy to author this.

Regards
Burn Alting