Running auditd from Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)

[Kangkook Jee]

Thanks a lot for your support. I will try with newer version and let you know how it goes!

Regards, Kangkook

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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