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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Wouter van Verre <woutervanverre@outlook.com>
Cc: "linux-audit@redhat.com" <linux-audit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Remote logging with autitd
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:44:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9904045.iPF9lTPz31@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DUB131-W886F03E34A0C33F40E6FABDD8F0@phx.gbl>

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:23:59 PM Wouter van Verre wrote:
> However, in my plugin I only  seems to receive data from the central (i.e.
> local) server... 

The feed to audispd, right now, is before receiving remote events. Meaning 
that audispd only sees local events and never aggregate events...as things are 
now.

> I draw this conclusion both because I see only one node name, and also
> because I generate TTY events on the client server only (and they show in
> /var/log/audit/audit.log as expected), and these do not show in the output
> from my plugin. Is this the expected behaviour?

Today, yes.

> Are plugins only supposed to receive the locally generated audit events? If
> it is, is there a way to forward the remotely generated data to a plugin on
> the central server?

Yes, and it would take some changes to the listening code to insert the events 
at the right point in the event loop.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-14  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-01 21:49 Remote logging with autitd Wouter van Verre
2014-11-02 18:12 ` Steve Grubb
2014-11-02 21:16   ` Wouter van Verre
2014-11-02 21:25     ` LC Bruzenak
2014-11-02 22:09       ` Wouter van Verre
2014-11-13 22:23     ` Wouter van Verre
2014-11-14  2:44       ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-11-14 15:16         ` AUID question David Flatley
2014-11-14 15:26           ` Steve Grubb
2014-11-18 12:21         ` Remote logging with autitd Wouter van Verre

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