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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Too many failed open syscalls
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:20:44 -0500
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On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 05:05:52 pm Todd Heberlein wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > They go on with a table which essentially means you need to audit almost
> > everything. But you only need to worry about the failed access.
> 
> Translation: You only need to worry about failed attack. Ignore the
> successful attacks.

There are certain system objects where you have to audit both success and failure, 
e.g. /etc/shadow. However, if a file's permissions are 0644, do you really need to 
audit that the file was accessed, e.g. /etc/localtime?

-Steve