From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Audit log file perms
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:54:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3326025.YjvI3teld1@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E472A6E-B904-4709-916F-AB69A6B15B65@bambenekconsulting.com>
On Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:34:20 PM John Bambenek wrote:
> What controls that?
The audit daemon.
> I have noticed /var/log/audit directory changes to a
> default setting quickly and file rotation resets it as well.
It defaults to 0600 unless you have set something for log_group and in that
case you get 0640. Rotation is done using the rename syscall, so no
permissions should be changing. Logs are created as 0640 root, root. But get
modified as the audit daemon gets more of its configuration parsed.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 17:34 Audit log file perms John Bambenek
2013-08-01 17:54 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2013-08-21 19:34 ` John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP
2013-08-21 20:09 ` Steve Grubb
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