[PATCH] audit: audit on the future execution of a binary.

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 03:03:59 PM Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Sunday, July 07, 2013 15:41:41 Peter Moody wrote:
> >I *think* I'm the only one who's been asking for this feature, so
> >hopefully my not getting to it won't be putting anyone out.
> 
> The reason that this is needed is that what we have available for auditing
> strange problems that a particular program might have is the
> equivalent of audit by inode. You have to have the pid in order to write a
> rule. Another invocation and we need a new rule. This feature would allow
> you to do investigations like:
> 
> - give me all EPERM events generated by apache.
> - give me all files opened by gnash
> - give me all execve calls made by bind
> - record any time sendmail fails to change uid
> - exclude any opens with ENOENT by top secret processes  <- real important

Another use case someone asked for this week:

- Give me all files transferred by scp.


-Steve