Re: RHEL 6 audit.rules question
On Jul 30, 2014, at 04:33 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 08:21:45 PM Dan White wrote:
> > Does the system allow for the import/include of groups of rules
> in other
> > files - like logrotate and /etc/logrotate.d/* ?
>
> No, but in 2.3 and later there is a /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory where
> rules
> can be dropped off. The augenrules utility will "compile" those into a
> master
> audit.rules file. You also have to enable augenrules by setting
> USE_AUGENRULES="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/audit. that is about as close as
> it
> comes.
>
> -Steve
Thanks for the quick answer.
Any plans to release 2.3.x to RHEL 6 that can be shared ?
I was able to "backport" this functionality to RHEL6 (and RHEL5) by doing
the following:
- Steal the augenrules script from a Fedora or RHEL7 package
- Use my configuration management system to create and manage files in
/etc/audit/rules.d
- Schedule periodic runs of augenrules
I didn't have to set USE_AUGENRULES (maybe because the older audit system
doesn't know to care?). It has been working very well for me as a way of
managing differences in audit rules on systems while still keeping things
centralized.
--Ray