Running auditd from Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, October 23, 2015 07:16:40 PM Kangkook Jee wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> From my Raspberry Pi machine (running Debian Wheezy distribution), I could
> see the kernel is built with audit enabled, and I could manage to install
> user-space audit client with the following command.
> 
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get install auditd
> 
> However, when I tried to enable audit issuing the following commands it
> doesn’t seem to run properly.
> 
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ sudo auditctl -l
> No rules
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ sudo auditctl -a entry,always -S open
> Error detecting machine type
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ sudo auditctl -a entry,always -F arch=armeb -S open
> arch=armeb machine type not found
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether audit support ARM based linux systems?

Yes. It was added starting in 2.0.4 and was corrected several times.


> Here’s my system information and thanks a lot for your help in advance!
> 
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ sudo uname -a
> Linux raspberrypi 3.18.11-v7+ #781 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 21 18:07:59 BST 2015
> armv7l GNU/Linux
> 
> pi at raspberrypi ~ $ dpkg -l |grep audit
> ii  auditd                                1:1.7.18-1.1                      
>      armhf        User space tools for security auditing ii  libaudit0     
>                        1:1.7.18-1.1                            armhf       

That one is too old. You need a newer audit package.

-Steve