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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Linux-audit@redhat.com, Andreas Hasenack <andreas@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: Default logging with no rules
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:34:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3080581.aeNJFYEL58@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANYNYEGD9843AVu787kvczXyqBx1_+9PXW8g6TDUac2PyQ9O+g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:04:24 AM EST Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> I read in an old presentation (~2011) that these come from "trusted
> apps",

There are only 10 - 15 apps that are "trusted apps". They are logging events 
that are required by various security standards such as common criteria, DISA 
STIG, PCI DSS, etc.

> and in fact any process with cap_audit_write (iirc) can log
> such events. 

While that may be true, it is generally not the case that they do in fact 
log.

> The tip was that exclude/never list/action could be used to reduce this
> noise, is that still the case and recommended approach?

If you must, sure. Trusted app events are in the 1100-1199 range. But which 
app is causing the problems that you see? In the past, we had to silence 
crond because it was noisy.

> Or is there a way to use audit with only the rules defined in /etc/audit/
> rules.d?

The rules in that dir are insufficient to fulfill regulatory requirements. If 
you are doing some kind of syscall experiment, then I can see that you might 
want to turn them off. But if your aim is meeting some kind of standard, then 
other events are required.

-Steve


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 14:04 Default logging with no rules Andreas Hasenack
2020-11-19 14:34 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2020-11-19 14:59   ` Andreas Hasenack

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