Re: "service auditd start" fails inside a container

Daniel Walsh
2023-05-01T15:07:56Z

On 4/28/23 14:48, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, April 28, 2023 3:54:32 AM EDT 江杨 wrote:
>> May I ask if Auditd supports Docker? Thank you
>> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2018-July/msg00078.html
> There is no active work that I know of to put auditd in a container. It's
> libraries are used by many applications. So, I don't know what use it would
> be to containerize it.
>
> And if you are asking if auditd can audit events in a container, I think that
> answer is also no.
>
> -Steve
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I don't believe there is anything to prevent auditd from running within
a container.  You can turn up and down the container to many different
levels or security separation. There will be some security things that
need to be turned off.

Running a contianer privileged will turn off almost everything form a
security perspective, and then running with some of the namespaces
shared with the host.

Something like

podman run --privileged --network=host --pid=host ... auditimage

Should work.

Later tightening up the security should also be possible, but you would
need to know what auditd needs access to.

With all that said, I am not sure what you are trying to achieve by
containerizing the audit daemon.