Help with auditd.conf

Help with auditd.conf

[Scott Ehrlich]

Hello to all:

I have Snare Agent and audit 1.5.2 running on a CentOS 5.0 box and a RHEL 
5.0 server.  I ideally would like audit logs to be sent to both the 
system's local audit.log file and to a log server.  I reviewed the 
/etc/audit/auditd.conf file and tried to play with things and move things 
around, but an active watch of my log server's /var/log/syslog and local 
machine's audit.log does NOT show simultaneous activity, leading me to 
think it is either one way or the other, and that simultaneous local and 
remote logging is not possible.

Is there a way to get both?

Thanks.

Scott

Re: Help with auditd.conf

[Ed Christiansen]

Do you REALLY want to do this?  your filesystem
will just have more space taken up with duplicate
information.

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Hello to all:
> 
> I have Snare Agent and audit 1.5.2 running on a CentOS 5.0 box and a RHEL
> 5.0 server.  I ideally would like audit logs to be sent to both the
> system's local audit.log file and to a log server.  I reviewed the
> /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and tried to play with things and move things
> around, but an active watch of my log server's /var/log/syslog and local
> machine's audit.log does NOT show simultaneous activity, leading me to
> think it is either one way or the other, and that simultaneous local and
> remote logging is not possible.
> 
> Is there a way to get both?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
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Re: Help with auditd.conf

[Greg Herrmann]

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Which version of Snare are you running?  If it's on an RHEL 5 server, I would assume version 1.3.  If so, shouldn't you be modifying /etc/snare.conf in order to do this?  

Ed Christiansen <edwardc@ll.mit.edu> wrote: Do you REALLY want to do this?  your filesystem
will just have more space taken up with duplicate
information.

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Hello to all:
> 
> I have Snare Agent and audit 1.5.2 running on a CentOS 5.0 box and a RHEL
> 5.0 server.  I ideally would like audit logs to be sent to both the
> system's local audit.log file and to a log server.  I reviewed the
> /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and tried to play with things and move things
> around, but an active watch of my log server's /var/log/syslog and local
> machine's audit.log does NOT show simultaneous activity, leading me to
> think it is either one way or the other, and that simultaneous local and
> remote logging is not possible.
> 
> Is there a way to get both?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
> --
> Linux-audit mailing list
> Linux-audit@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit

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Re: Help with auditd.conf

[Kevin Boyce]

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I think Ed is correct.  You should have a couple of lines in snare.conf
with the following.

file=<path to logfile>
network=<remote hostname or ip>:<port>

you can comment out either one or leave both.  you may even be able to
specify more than one of each, but I haven't tried that.

kevin

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:43 -0700, Greg Herrmann wrote:

> Which version of Snare are you running?  If it's on an RHEL 5 server,
> I would assume version 1.3.  If so, shouldn't you be
> modifying /etc/snare.conf in order to do this?  
> 
> Ed Christiansen <edwardc@ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>         Do you REALLY want to do this? your filesystem
>         will just have more space taken up with duplicate
>         information.
>         
>         Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>         > Hello to all:
>         > 
>         > I have Snare Agent and audit 1.5.2 running on a CentOS 5.0
>         box and a RHEL
>         > 5.0 server. I ideally would like audit logs to be sent to
>         both the
>         > system's local audit.log file and to a log server. I
>         reviewed the
>         > /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and tried to play with things
>         and move things
>         > around, but an active watch of my log
>         server's /var/log/syslog and local
>         > machine's audit.log does NOT show simultaneous activity,
>         leading me to
>         > think it is either one way or the other, and that
>         simultaneous local and
>         > remote logging is not possible.
>         > 
>         > Is there a way to get both?
>         > 
>         > Thanks.
>         > 
>         > Scott
>         > 
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Re: Help with auditd.conf

[Tony Jones]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Hello to all:
> I have Snare Agent and audit 1.5.2 running on a CentOS 5.0 box and a RHEL
> 5.0 server.  I ideally would like audit logs to be sent to both the
> system's local audit.log file and to a log server.  I reviewed the
> /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and tried to play with things and move things
> around, but an active watch of my log server's /var/log/syslog and local
> machine's audit.log does NOT show simultaneous activity, leading me to
> think it is either one way or the other, and that simultaneous local and
> remote logging is not possible.
> Is there a way to get both?
> Thanks.
> Scott

It's not possibly directly. The kernel will log to syslog if there is no
auditd running but normally, with auditd running it'll log to auditd but
what you are trying to achieve is the reason the displatcher (audispd) was
created. If you don't want to use one of the existing modules, you could
easily create your own which just relays to the local syslog.

Tony

Re: Help with auditd.conf

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 02:23:34 pm Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have Snare Agent and audit 1.5.2 running on a CentOS 5.0 box and a RHEL
> 5.0 server.  I ideally would like audit logs to be sent to both the
> system's local audit.log file and to a log server.

We are working on this.

> I reviewed the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file and tried to play with things and
> move things around, but an active watch of my log server's /var/log/syslog
> and local machine's audit.log does NOT show simultaneous activity, leading
> me to think it is either one way or the other, and that simultaneous local
> and remote logging is not possible.
>
> Is there a way to get both?

audispd is the audit event multiplexer. To get audit logs in 
both /var/log/messages and /var/log/audit/audit.log, 
edit /etc/audisp/plugins.d/syslog.conf and change active to yes. Then restart 
the audit deamon. If you don't have /etc/audisp/plugins.d/syslog.conf, you 
need to upgrade to a newer audit package.

-Steve