RE: Audit reporting Invalid argument

> The plugin will be restarted when the next event arrives to audispd.

Hi, Is it possible to start and stop the user written audit plug-in while auditd and audispd running? As I understand, audispd is started by auditd. Audispd starts the user plug-in program using their configuration files present in /etc/audisp/plugins.d directory. Auditd and user plug-in are started and stopped as part of auditd startup and stop. Is it possible to start the user plug-in after the auditd is started and stop the user plug-in before the auditd is stopped?

-----Original Message----- From: Steve Grubb [mailto:sgrubb@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 6:24 PM To: Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath <shriniketan.bhagwat(a)hpe.com&gt; Cc: linux-audit(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: Audit reporting Invalid argument On Saturday, May 14, 2016 09:40:05 AM Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath wrote: > > Not today. The check for uid 0 is a poor man's check for > > CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL > > Are there any future plans to support enabling audit from non root > user using CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL? You are the only person who has asked for it. I suppose it can be done in a couple lines of code. But you still have the permissions of the directories that hold the rules to correct. Easy to fix, but I think you might be fighting the distribution's package manager which would set things back to root every update. > Regarding suppression of events, I will do some testing and let you > know later. > > Is there a way I can avoid default logging of the audit events to > /var/log/audit/audit.log? If you have an old copy old the audit system (2.5.1 or earlier) then use log_format = NOLOG. If you have a current copy, then use write_logs = no. -Steve > I do not want audit to log audit events to audit.log, however I will > capture them using my plug-in. Is there a way I can accomplish this? > I tried to commenting the log_file filed from auditd.conf, however > the events are still written to audit.log. I think below code from > auditd-config.c is causing audit to write to audit.log > > config->log_file = strdup("/var/log/audit/audit.log");