Adding a key to syscall rules

Timothy R. Chavez tinytim at us.ibm.com
Mon May 2 16:06:26 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 09:00 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to bring something up. Currently, we have the ability to add a custom 
> "tag" or key to filesystem auditing rules. I got to thinking that this should 
> also be done for syscall auditing. This way, admins can set a rule with a 
> custom key and search for it later. (I have to write the search code.) 
> Besides being useful, I think this should be done for symmetry between 
> syscall & filesystem auditing as well.
> 

I like this idea, it certainly doesn't hurt to have.  What's your time
frame for introducing new functionality to auditctl?

-tim




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