Is unlink the audit equivalent of rmdir?

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Oct 25 16:19:25 UTC 2013


On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:53:47 AM leam hall wrote:
> For audit.rules purposes, if the stig.rules from the repo audits on unlink,
> does that cover rmdir?

No. If you strace the rmdir command you will see what syscalls are involved. 
The rmdir syscall is involved.

-Steev




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