Hi,
I've just started using auditing utilities to monitor filesystem events. I'm using
audit-1.5.2
version. The problem is as follows:
If I do "auditctl -a entry,always -w /etc/passwd", then "grep man
/etc/passwd", then "ausearch -f
passwd", the "grep" command is logged in the log file.
However, if I do "auditctl -a entry,always -w /etc", then "grep man
/etc/passwd", then "ausearch -f
passwd", the "grep" command is not logged in the log file. However, the
"vim" command is recorded
if I use vim to open that "/etc/passwd" file.
Is this the preassumed behavior for the auditing system or have I misconfigured something?
Any
clues on that?
ps: Is there a better way to monitor the whole filesystem behaviors, such as open, create,
delete
syscalls, instead of just monitoring a single directory?
Thanks for your help,
Xi
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