Re: Audit reporting Invalid argument

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Saturday, May 14, 2016 09:40:05 AM Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath wrote:
> > Not today. The check for uid 0 is a poor man's check for CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL
> 
> Are there any future plans to support enabling audit from non root user
> using CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL?

You are the only person who has asked for it. I suppose it can be done in a 
couple lines of code. But you still have the permissions of the directories 
that hold the rules to correct. Easy to fix, but I think you might be fighting 
the distribution's package manager which would set things back to root every 
update.


> Regarding suppression of events, I will do some testing and let you know
> later. 
> 
> Is there a way I can avoid default logging of the audit events to
> /var/log/audit/audit.log?

If you have an old copy old the audit system (2.5.1 or earlier) then use 
log_format = NOLOG. If you have a current copy, then use write_logs = no.

-Steve

> I do not want audit to log audit events to
> audit.log, however I will capture them using my plug-in. Is there a way I
> can accomplish this? I tried to commenting the log_file filed from
> auditd.conf, however the events are still written to audit.log. I think
> below code from auditd-config.c is causing audit to write to audit.log
> 
> config->log_file = strdup("/var/log/audit/audit.log");