Re: Does the order / position of audit rule's arguments matter?

On Monday, January 19, 2015 12:57:11 PM Jan Lieskovsky wrote: > Hello folks, > > wasn't able to find answer to the following question in the auditctl > manual page, thus checking here - does the order / position in which the > auditctl's | /etc/audit/audit.rules' audit rule arguments are listed in > the rule matter or all permutations of the arguments are allowed? Yes, its a first match wins system. I tell people to order from specific to general. IOW, put a watch on /etc/shadow before a watch on /etc.

-Steve > IOW suppose the following rule: > -a always,exit -F path=/bin/ping -F perm=x -F auid>=500 -F > auid!=4294967295 -k privileged > > Is > -a always,exit -F path=/bin/ping -F perm=x -F auid>=500 -F > auid!=4294967295 -k privileged > > the only allowed form or are all the other possible argument permutations > [*] also valid / supported (under assumption there isn't some option > missing or some new option added of course when compared to the original > rule)? > > Thank you && Regards, Jan. > -- > Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Technologies Team > > [*] For example suppose five different /etc/audit/audit.rules configurations > would use the forms as follows below - do all of them represent equivalent > requirement / setting? (regardless how much it's likely they would be > expressed in that form of) > > -a always,exit -F path=/bin/ping -F perm=x -F auid>=500 -F auid!=4294967295 > -k privileged -F path=/bin/ping -F perm=x -F auid>=500 -F auid!=4294967295 > -k privileged -a always,exit -F perm=x -F auid>=500 -F auid!=4294967295 -k > privileged -a always, exit -F path/bin/ping -F auid>=500 -F > auid!=4294967295 -k privileged -a always,exit -F path=/bin/ping -F perm=x > -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged -a always,exit -F path=/bin/ping -F > perm=x -F auid>=500 ..