SELinux for auditing

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:59, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > Assuming current generation of audit code...
> >
> > auditctl -a exit,always -F perm=w -F obj_type=sbin_t -k executables
>
> Hmmm...on FC6, that yields an error from auditctl:
> 	key option needs a watch or syscall given prior to it

Ooops, that should be:

auditctl -a exit,always -F perm=w -F obj_type=bin_t -F key=executable

> Dropping the -k option avoids the error message, but overwriting a bin_t
> file doesn't generate any audit message.  Similarly, adding a -S open
> avoids the error message while retaining the -k, but overwriting a bin_t
> file doesn't generate any audit message.  Not sure where the problem
> lies there.

OK, we should look into this.

> Also, he mentioned RHEL 4 as his platform, so I would tend to think that
> his kernel and auditctl wouldn't support this anyway.  

If so, it won't.

> So he may be limited to using auditallow statements in policy, which is
> certainly legitimate use of them (although I understand your goal of
> centralizing audit configuration).

Well, not just centralizing configuration, but that its actually fit for its 
purpose. :)

-Steve