Re: Security audit rules

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 11:36:38 PM EST Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. 
(EXT - IN/Chennai) wrote:
> I am using RHEL7.6 version (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Maipo)).

This distribution wants rules placed in /etc/audit/rules.d/
The audit package should have a file named README-rules that explains what is 
expected.

-Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:03 AM
> To: Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. (EXT - IN/Chennai)
> <vezhavendan.1.kadirvadivelu.ext@nokia.com> Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Security audit rules
> 
> On 2019-11-08 12:52, Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. (EXT - IN/Chennai) 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In one of the VM I find audit.rules defined under /etc/audit as well as
> > /etc/audit/rules.d.
> > 
> > What is the significance as well as difference between the files found in
> > 2 places.
> You haven't said what distro you are using.  In more recent distros, the
> rules in rules.d are used by augenrules to populate audit.rules,
> overwriting them.
> > Also please let me know what is the correct location where audit.rules
> > need to be places.
> Depends on your distro.
> 
> > Vezhavendan K
> 
> - RGB
> 
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