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From: Michael C Thompson <thompsmc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: auditctl usage for filter lists: "user" , "watch" and "exclude"
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:59:24 -0500
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Michael C Thompson wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm trying to understand better the user, watch and exclude auditctl 
> filter lists. I believe I have a reasonable understanding of exclude 
> from some examples Steve gave (see below), but I have very little idea 
> of how user is meant to be used, and none about watch.
> 
> Any enlightenment will be helpful.
> 
> For the exclude list,
> 
> exclude,always -F msgtype=SYSCALL
> 
> seems to be the only valid structure, where msgtype can be any value 
> (XXX) for the type in the audit.log? (where the 1st field in the audit 
> log is type=XXX)
> 
> Are there more filters that apply? (and does it have any meaning without 
> a filter?)

Question, is it intended for:
auditctl -a exclude,always -F msgtype=CONFIG_CHANGE
   and
auditctl -a exclude,never -F msgtype=CONFIG_CHANGE

(being active at different times) to both block the CONFIG_CHANGE 
messages? I would assume that exclude,never to _not_ block messages of 
that type?

Mike