From: Ondrej Moris <omoris@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: /var/log/audit ownership/permissions
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:12:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5790D860.8060508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12890758.RtUGNIL9cO@x2>
On 07/21/2016 03:55 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:48:04 AM EDT Ondrej Moris wrote:
>> Hi, I noticed that in 2.6.5 /var/log/audit permission were dropped from
>> 750 to 600.
>
> The directory should be 0750 or 0700 depending on your config. 0600 would be a
> mistake.
Sorry, it was a typo - it should be 0700 (not 0600).
>
>
>> I am fine with that but while I see the motivation [1], I
>> just cannot find where is that happening in the code.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/audit/browser/trunk/src/auditd-event.c#L886
Thanks, now it is clear. You one thing - line 903 suggests that it is
either 0700 or 0770 which I can confirm by testing:
# # log_group = root
# ls -ld /var/log/audit/
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Jul 21 09:56 /var/log/audit/
# # log_group = input
# ls -ld /var/log/audit/
drwxrwx---. 2 root input 4096 Jul 21 09:56 /var/log/audit/
>
>> Besides, specfile
>> still contains:
>>
>> %attr(750,root,root) %dir %{_var}/log/audit
>
> Maybe I should take the attr away or modify it to (-,root,-). The group can
> change. For example, I have wheel allowed to run audit reports on my system.
>
>> and hence 'rpm -V audit' obviously fails.
>
> Yeah. Hmm.
Yes, change you mentioned would solve 'rpm -V' problem. It sounds very
reasonable since both group ownership and permission are configurable
via auditd.conf.
>
> -Steve
>
>> [1]
>> http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/tech-list/2016-May/msg00468.html
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 9:48 /var/log/audit ownership/permissions Ondrej Moris
2016-07-21 13:55 ` Steve Grubb
2016-07-21 14:12 ` Ondrej Moris [this message]
2016-07-21 14:31 ` Steve Grubb
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