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<span lang="EN">Hello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">I noticed in the man page for auditctl, an example of how to monitor if admins are accessing other user's files. I created a rule like the one in the example. This is great that it is pulling the action and user calling the action!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">The rule<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas">-a always,exit -S all -F dir=/home/username/ -F uid=0 -C auid!=obj_uid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">I will pull a report on the findings with <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas">aureport -f -i | grep /home/username/
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<span lang="EN">The report is heavier than anticipated so I tried to make an adjustment to only capture what happens in the directory</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas">-a always,exit -S all -F path=/home/username/ -F uid=0 -C auid!=obj_uid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">... but that is returning with </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas">Error sending add rule data request (Invalid argument)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">I then tried the below rule; it does not return an error upon add, but when I do an auditctl -l there are no rules listed</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas">-a always,exit -S all -F path=/home/username/ -p=rwxa -F uid=0 -C auid!=obj_uid<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Consolas"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN">Is there a preferred way to set the rule, maybe on the inode of the directory, but does not lose the ability to see if an admin is doing it and what action? I have been adding these on the fly, instead of adding to the /etc/audit/audit.rules
file, for now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nick Skaggs <o:p></o:p></p>
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