Audit reporting Invalid argument

[Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath]

Thanks Steve and Richard for your response.
I will provide the fix soon.

Regards,
Ketan

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Grubb [mailto:sgrubb at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 6:24 PM
To: Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath <shriniketan.bhagwat at hpe.com>
Cc: linux-audit at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Audit reporting Invalid argument

On Saturday, May 14, 2016 09:40:05 AM Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath wrote:
> > Not today. The check for uid 0 is a poor man's check for 
> > CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL
> 
> Are there any future plans to support enabling audit from non root 
> user using CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL?

You are the only person who has asked for it. I suppose it can be done in a couple lines of code. But you still have the permissions of the directories that hold the rules to correct. Easy to fix, but I think you might be fighting the distribution's package manager which would set things back to root every update.


> Regarding suppression of events, I will do some testing and let you 
> know later.
> 
> Is there a way I can avoid default logging of the audit events to 
> /var/log/audit/audit.log?

If you have an old copy old the audit system (2.5.1 or earlier) then use log_format = NOLOG. If you have a current copy, then use write_logs = no.

-Steve

> I do not want audit to log audit events to audit.log, however I will 
> capture them using my plug-in. Is there a way I can accomplish this? I 
> tried to commenting the log_file filed from auditd.conf, however the 
> events are still written to audit.log. I think below code from 
> auditd-config.c is causing audit to write to audit.log
> 
> config->log_file = strdup("/var/log/audit/audit.log");