From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: auditctl rule to monitor dir only (not all sub dir and files etc..)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:25:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18913033.s01T2HagDj@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5244548D.2080609@gmail.com>
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 05:36:45 PM Stefano Schiavi wrote:
> I am trying to use auditd to monitor changes to a directory. The problem
> is that when I setup a rule it does monitor the dir I specified but also
> all the sub dir and files making the monitor useless due to endless
> verbosity.
>
> Here is the rule I setup:
> |auditctl-w/home/raven/public_html-p war-k raven-pubhtmlwatch|
A watch is really a syscall rule in disguise. If you place a watch on a
directory, auditctl will turn it into:
-a exit,always -F dir=/home/raven/public_html -F perm=war -F key=raven-pubhtmlwatch
The -F dir field is recursive. However, if you just want to watch the directory
entries, you can change that to -F path.
-a exit,always -F path=/home/raven/public_html -F perm=war -F key=raven-pubhtmlwatch
This is not recursive and just watches the inode that the directory occupies.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 18:25 UTC|newest]
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2013-09-26 15:36 auditctl rule to monitor dir only (not all sub dir and files etc..) Stefano Schiavi
2013-09-26 18:25 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2013-09-26 18:58 ` Stefano Schiavi
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