One challenge for audit - seeking ideas

Burn Alting burn at swtf.dyndns.org
Mon Jun 9 20:07:19 UTC 2014


Thanks Lenny,

Do I need to be running selinux in enforcing mode or would permissive
work?

I will do some research - I am 100% brand new to selinux.

Rgds
Burn

On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:53 -0500, LC Bruzenak wrote:
> On 06/09/2014 04:39 AM, Burn Alting wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am looking a ways to counter the situation where a user restarts a
> > service and hence all that service's auditing events are attributed to
> > the auid of the user who performed the restart.
> >
> > That is
> >
> > a. User logs into system (and pam sets auid)
> > b. User su's or sudo's up to a service account (auid still the same).
> > c. User restarts the service
> > d. All audit events resulting from the service have the user's auid.
> >
> > At present I am looking at solution that front-end's the
> > RHEL5/RHEL6 /sbin/service command which sets the auid via a
> > audit_setloginuid() call and then execv's the service script and command
> > arguments.
> >
> > I am interested in any other solutions that people may have implemented
> > successfully. Especially for the systemd replacement, if it's been done.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Burn
> >
> >
> Like run_init does (in the policy_coreutils rpm)?
> 
> LCB
> 





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