On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 09:15:52AM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
On Friday 21 November 2008 11:59:46 Taylor_Tad(a)emc.com wrote:
> I'd like to set a file system watch so that any activity in an
> auto-mounted directory is audited.
You can't at this point in time. When the rule is loaded, it needs to resolve
the path down to a device and inode. If the file system is not mounted, it
cannot do this and the rule is rejected.
> It looks like just setting a watchon a parent directory isn't sufficient. For
> example, if I have directory path /dir1/dir2 and auto-mount something at
> /dir1/dir2/mount-dir, setting a file system watch on /dir1/dir2 doesn't
> detect activity in the auto-mounted subtree.
True.
> Looking at the auditctl man page, it looks like I'd have to issue a command
> like "/sbin/auditctl -q /dir1/dir2/mount-dir,/dir1/dir2" to tell the
kernel
> to watch the newly mounted file system as well.
Yes.
> Unfortunately, auto-mounts are, well, automatic, so there's no one to issue
> that command.
You do realize that they are, in the end, done from userland? Which is
the natural place to do that...