Re: RHELU4 versus RHELU5
On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:06, Kirkwood, David A. wrote:
Is the auditing used in RHEL4 update 4 a dead end with respect to
either
RHEL4 update 5 or RHEL5?
Within RHEL4, they are very much the same. But some improvements with each
release. Between RHEL4 & 5, the user interfaces at the program level are the
same. The audit utilities understand the same parameters, audit.rules has the
same syntax, etc. The API at the library level has changed somewhat due to
new capabilities in RHEL5 and the kernel.
The reason for the question is that I need to write some scripts or
graphical programs to tie some of the pieces together to construct
meaningful auditablity for disjoint items. If I have to do this all over
again, are the items going to be the same or completely different or
somewhat the same?
Between RHEL4 & 5 they are mostly the same. I'd have to know exactly what you
are trying to do to answer it, but we've worked hard to preserve the same
command set. IOW, "audit -w /etc/shadow -p wa" runs on each platform. The
audit records are slightly different format, but contain nearly the same
information.
I can use the system as it is now, but I would have to run many
ausearches
and / or aureports with different parameters to get the information I want.
When I need to look at 10's of systems, it is much easier to consolidate
everything into a combined output and view the whole thing.
This is the area that we are working in right now. RHEL4U5 has a realtime
interface which can be used for log aggregation. We are starting to turn
attention to that and should start fleshing something out in the coming
weeks.
-Steve