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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Nathan Cooprider <ncooprider@yankeehacker.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Auditd misses accept syscalls from sshd
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:13:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3309840.oCxPxWEFuR@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMMwpciFh5f+HHQEf9pfU5528koKK65zAFPVF5UHQBH3NswGLA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

Addressing a couple obvious things here...

On Friday, December 2, 2016 9:55:17 PM EST Nathan Cooprider wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 4:09 PM Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, December 2, 2016 8:43:46 PM EST Nathan Cooprider wrote:
> > > Auditd seems to miss accept syscalls from ssh on Ubuntu 14.
> > 
> > Its not auditd, the kernel does all the work. Auditd acts a lot like a
> > specialized syslog.  :-)
> > 
> > > I tried versions 2.3.2 and 2.4.5 of the daemon

Support was not added until 2.5.

> > > with kernel versions 3.13.0-96

Definitely won't support it.

> > > and 4.4.0-47.

The feature landed in 4.3, so 4.4 should have it. However, you need audit 2.5 
or later to use the kernel feature.


>  I just tried again and had the same problem:
> 
> vagrant@vagrant:~$ uname -a
> Linux vagrant 4.4.0-51-generic #72~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 24 19:22:30
> UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Try pairing that with a newer auditd so that auditctl has the support to load 
the rule.

-Steve

> That's a newer version than I have on my Ubuntu 16 VM, which does
> demonstrate the problem. It's also strange that restarting ssh then makes
> the accept syscall events show up. Other sshd syscalls show up in auditd
> before and after the ssh restart.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-02 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02 20:43 Auditd misses accept syscalls from sshd Nathan Cooprider
2016-12-02 21:09 ` Steve Grubb
2016-12-02 21:55   ` Nathan Cooprider
2016-12-02 22:13     ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2016-12-03  2:11       ` Nathan Cooprider
2016-12-03 17:47         ` Steve Grubb
2016-12-05 16:42           ` Nathan Cooprider
2016-12-05 22:44             ` Steve Grubb
2016-12-02 21:26 ` Paul Moore
2016-12-02 21:42   ` Nathan Cooprider
2016-12-02 21:56     ` Paul Moore
2016-12-02 23:44     ` Hassan Sultan
2016-12-03  2:15       ` Nathan Cooprider
2016-12-03 17:39       ` Steve Grubb

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