RHEL 6 audit.rules question

[rshaw1 at umbc.edu]

> On Jul 30, 2014, at 04:33 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 08:21:45 PM Dan White wrote:
>>        > Does the system allow for the import/include of groups of rules
>> in other
>>        > files - like logrotate and /etc/logrotate.d/* ?
>>
>> No, but in 2.3 and later there is a /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory where
>> rules
>> can be dropped off. The augenrules utility will "compile" those into a
>> master
>> audit.rules file. You also have to enable augenrules by setting
>> USE_AUGENRULES="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/audit. that is about as close as
>> it
>> comes.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Thanks for the quick answer.
> Any plans to release 2.3.x to RHEL 6 that can be shared ?

I was able to "backport" this functionality to RHEL6 (and RHEL5) by doing
the following:

- Steal the augenrules script from a Fedora or RHEL7 package
- Use my configuration management system to create and manage files in
/etc/audit/rules.d
- Schedule periodic runs of augenrules

I didn't have to set USE_AUGENRULES (maybe because the older audit system
doesn't know to care?).  It has been working very well for me as a way of
managing differences in audit rules on systems while still keeping things
centralized.

--Ray