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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-audit@redhat.com" <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: What's the difference between -F dir=XX and -w?
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:18:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140103091807.55ddc2ce@ivy-bridge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZVxRmz84tf6cBr3q2_qD5OTbH9PnGBdxpcELLvyCAGZDBv6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 14:30:58 +0800
Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the difference between -F dir=XX and -w?
> 
> -a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S open -F success=1 -F dir=/secure
> 
> versus
> 
> -w /secure
> 

The '-w' option is for backwards compatibility with the original
(RHEL4) implementation. What it does it detect what the target is (file
or dir) and then expands into -F path= or -F dir= depending on what the
target was. '-w' should be considered deprecated and is limited in its
capabilities. This is explained in more detail on the auditctl man page.

-Steve

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-03 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-03  6:30 What's the difference between -F dir=XX and -w? Aaron Lewis
2014-01-03  8:12 ` Bryan Harris
2014-01-03 14:18 ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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