Is audit=1 still required for RHEL 7?

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, January 08, 2015 12:12:14 PM Burak Gürer wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> first of all sorry for my bad english!
> 
> i could not accomplish to get rid of from auid=4294967295 issue
> 
> i have implemented that suggestions:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2010-June/msg00002.html
> https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/audit-faq.txt
> 
> but not succeed.
> is there any other reasons or solutions?

There is a chance that --with-audit or --enable-audit was not used in the 
configuration of the utilities. I can't say for certain without knowing more 
about your distribution.


> by the way suggestions in the links, is it important to where we put the
> suggested confs:
> 
> e.g. which line to put "audit=1"

That is a kernel boot parameter.

> or which line to put "session required pam_loginuid.so"

This would go into the pam configuration of system entry points. For example, 
it would be in /etc/pam.d/login. But it would NOT go into /etc/pam.d/system-
auth or /etc/pam.d/su. This should already be configured by your distribution 
and you shouldn't need to adjust it.

> and further are kernel or audit package versions important?

Yes. But not to the two questions you ask above. More important is whether or 
not auditing is enabled in the packages by your distribution. The audit 
facilities from your question has been available almost 10 years. So, I wonder 
if auditing is enabled.

-Steve

> If anyone can help with this it will be very helpful.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   On 06-01-2015 21:16, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 06, 2015 02:13:27 PM Steve Grubb wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:54:37 AM Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> >>> I have been digging around trying to find the answer to the above,
> >>> hopefully I didn't miss something obvious. It was for RHEL < 7 is it
> >>> still for RHEL 7? Or has systemd done some magic to remove that need?
> >> 
> >> AFAIK, all linux kernels from all distributions have the same need. What
> >> that flag does is enable the audit system. When the audit system is
> >> enabled
> >> and every time there is a fork, the TIF_AUDIT flag is added to the
> >> process.
> >> This make the process auditable.
> >> 
> >> Without this flag, the process cannot be audited...ever. So, if systemd
> >> was
> >> to do some magic (and it doesn't), then systemd itself would not be
> >> auditable nor any process it creates until audit became enabled.
> >> 
> >> -Steve
> > 
> > Thanks Steve, I just wanted to check, I couldn't find anything explicitly
> > mentioning this. I think I'll open a bug for the SCAP security guide about
> > this.
> > 
> > -Erinn
> > 
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