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From: Bill Tangren <bjt@aa.usno.navy.mil>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: trouble with a number of audit rules
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:33:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BE7626.6090108@aa.usno.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701291715.35261.sgrubb@redhat.com>

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 16:57, Bill Tangren wrote:
>> 1)
>> # Ensures that any reads of the audit log by the current user that's logged
>> is # audited. It might be beneficial to create a rule for each of the 5
>> logs # that are generated.
>>
>> RULE:
>> -w /var/log/audit/audit.log -p r -F auid=-1

This is in the capp.rules too.

> 
> On RHEL4, syscall auditing and file system auditing cannot be mixed on the 
> same line. Watches can only take -p & -k parameters.
> 
>> 2)
>> # Ensures that any user who mounts or unmounts a device is audited
>>
>> RULE:
>> -a exit,always -S mount -S umount
> 
> Are you on x86_64? If so, you should use umount2. I believe this is documented 
> in capp.rules.

Yes, x86_64. I missed this one in capp.rules. Damn.

> 
>> 3)
>> # ensures auditing whenever the reboot command is sent to the kernel
>>
>> RULE:
>> -a always,entry -S socketcall -F a0=13
> 
> x86_64? If so use the syscall, shutdown. (offhand, I don't know why you would 
> need to audit shutdown.)
> 
>> 4)
>> # Ensures auditing of any unauthorized access to roots home directory.
>>
>> RULE:
>> -w /root -p rw -F uid!=0

I'll have to think some more about how to do this one.

> 
> see #1 above
> 
>> 5)
>> #Ensure that failed use of the following system calls is audited
>>
>> RULE:
>> -a exit,always -S quotactl -S mount -S stime -S kill -S chroot -F success=0
>> -F auid=-1 -F auid=0
> 
> stime is valid on i386. maybe settimeofday?

Yes, settimeofday worked.

> 
> -Steve
> 

Thanks, Steve.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-29 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29 21:57 trouble with a number of audit rules Bill Tangren
2007-01-29 22:15 ` Steve Grubb
2007-01-29 22:33   ` Bill Tangren [this message]

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