All,

I'm on an RHEL4u3 with Steve's preliminary 1.0.15 package (I built the RPM) under x86_64 2.6.9-34-ELsmp. I'm using the CAPP.rules sample fileset to great success. NISPOM 8-602 requires that CLOSE operations on security-relevant objects be logged. Well, I've got logging for OPEN on security-relevant objects (with the watches) working VERY well (yeah!!!). The default CAPP.rules file had nothing about close(2), so just to test it, I ran:

auditctl -a entry,possible -S close

and then as a normal user typed: cat /etc/group (which is a security-relevant object that I have permission to open, and thus eventually close)

However, when I review the audit files, nothing is logged. If I change the "entry,possible" to "entry,always" then lots of stuff gets logged, but not my actual opening of the /etc/group file.

There is only one other thing that could be a configuration issue: "auditctl -l |grep /etc/group" reveals an additional "perm=wa" field that is set by the -p option in CAPP.rules, but even if root writes to one of the watched files, close(2) is still not logged.

Do I have a configuration problem or is something deeper going on?

Thanks,

Charlie Todd
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
ctodd- at -ball.com