That definitely helps! I already planned to make this hierarchy have its own partition. This also gets around the issue of having to know the uid or gid. We plan to move to a Fedora Directory Server based solution and thus creating rules for each user was going to be a problem. Thanks, -Mont <div>On 11/16/05, Steve G <<a href="mailto:linux_4ever@yahoo.com">linux_4ever@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> >I've been looking at auditd/auditctl and it seems like only individual >files or directories can be watched, but not directory trees. This is correct. The patches that do file system auditing were rejected and we were asked to try to combine the hooks with inotify. That was done. I did bring this up with the audit working group that we should look into this capability since it seems useful. So, to sum it up...it would need kernel work and that will take a while. There is a workaround that may help. If your samba share is on its own partition, then you can use the devmajor & minor fields in creating an audit rule. For example, suppose I wanted to do this for /tmp: [root@endeavor ~]# mount | grep tmp none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda8 on /tmp type ext3 (rw) [root@endeavor ~]# stat /dev/hda8 | grep type Device: dh/13d Inode: 919 Links: 1 Device type: 3,8 So the rule would be: auditctl -a exit,always -S open -F devmajor=3 -F devminor=8 To test: vi /tmp/gconfd-sgrubb/ ausearch -f gconfd-sgrubb time->Wed Nov 16 19:17:28 2005 type=PATH msg=audit(1132186648.942:633): name="/tmp/gconfd-sgrubb/" flags=103 inode=16419 dev=03:08 mode=040700 ouid=4325 ogid=4325 rdev=00:00 type=CWD msg=audit(1132186648.942:633): cwd="/root" type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1132186648.942:633): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=yes exit=3 a0=92152b0 a1=18800 a2=3 a3=18800 items=1 pid=2937 auid=4325 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm="vim" exe="/usr/bin/vim" So this works. Hope this helps... -Steve __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 <a href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> </blockquote></div>