From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: "Khoa V. Nguyen" <kelvestto@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: auditctl Question
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:57:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703220957.56397.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502890.80597.qm@web55402.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 13:03, Khoa V. Nguyen wrote:
> I want to be able to audit failed access to /etc/inittab but I don't think
> the current auditctl features able to accomplish it.
>
> auditctl -a watch,always /etc/inittab -F success=no
>
> This would be a syntax error..but
>
> auditctl -a exit,always -w /etc/inittab -F success=no
>
>
> How can I do it?
It depends on the kernel you are running on. For 2.6.19 and higher, you'd just
do:
auditctl -a exit,always -F perm=rwa -F path=/etc/inittab -F success=no
If you have an earlier kernel, you are limited to -S open -F success=no and
you could limit its scope by using -F devmajor and devminor.
-Steve
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2007-03-21 17:03 auditctl Question Khoa V. Nguyen
2007-03-22 13:57 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
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