Re: [RFC] programmatic IDS routing

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Wednesday 19 March 2008 15:04:57 Linda Knippers wrote:
> I'm not sure why all of the above apply.

Because this IDS is part of the audit system.

> If an IDS has a dependency on audit and specific audit rules to get the
> information it needs, it can use the information in its config file to
> construct the audit rules it needs.

Then you surely have duplicate rules controlled by 2 systems. The first rule 
in the audit.rules file is -D which would delete not only the audit event 
rules for archival purposes, but any IDS placed rules. There is not a simple 
way of deleting the rules placed by auditctl vs the ones placed by the IDS. 
The IDS system would also need to be prodded to reload its set of rules 
again.

> I don't think an IDS config file needs to be any more complicated than an
> audit rules, and in fact should be simpler.

I think it would be more complicated going down this path for a number of 
reasons.

-Steve