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
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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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