Re: Exclude /usr/libexec/mysqld from audit.rules

Derek Warner
2013-12-09T15:59:41Z

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Steve,

Thanks again, I am really trying to get my linux skills sharpened as I have
been unfortunately raised in the windows world. It does pay the bills
though.

V/R

Derek Warner – CISSP-ISSEP

Information System Security Engineer

Riptide Software

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derek.a.warner@us.army.mil

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Monday, December 09, 2013 10:20:41 AM Derek Warner wrote:
> > How did you "interpret" the log setting to retreive the syscall
> > "sched_setparam"?
>
> I copied the text and ran it through ausearch with the '-i' commandline
> option.
>
>
> > Anyhow I am not sure why we want this, I have no idea what the
> > sched_setparam actually does.
>
> It changes the priority of the process. Which is not exactly security
> critical. For concerns in this area, one would generally set rlimits to
> prevent a resource hog. Additionally, if you really, really wanted to see
> this, you'd only want the ones that succeed or fail due to EPERM.
>
>
> >Did you do a lookup on the mysql syscall number?
>
> No, I used the audit tools to check it.
>
> -Steve
>
>

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