Stop/Disable AUDITD on RHEL7

[Joe Wulf]

Ansible is the standard on RHEL 7 now.  You can also look for chef, too.

      From: warron.french <warron.french at gmail.com>
 To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> 
Cc: linux-audit at redhat.com
 Sent: Friday, August 4, 2017 4:11 PM
 Subject: Re: Stop/Disable AUDITD on RHEL7
   
Hello Steve, I am not running Puppet on this system.  Specifically because it is to be built as my newer RH Satellite 6.2.10 server.

The flush variable has been set to data.


I am using an image built by a coworker, but as I said we are not running Puppet on this particular host - guaranteed.  What other sort of systems management tools can I check for?


--------------------------
Warron French


On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:

On Thursday, August 3, 2017 5:12:39 PM EDT warron.french wrote:
> I am running RHEL 7 Server so that I can also run Red Hat Satellite.
>
> I seem to be having resource contention problems and auditd is a part of
> the problem consuming up to 22.0% according to results of the *top* command.

I'd be curious what the flush technique is in auditd.conf.

> I have:
>
>    1. executed a *systemctl disable auditd; systemctl stop auditd*  (with
>    an error about dependencies)

"service auditd stop" is the correct way to stop auditd.

>    2. executed a *service auditd stop (*and the service stops but doesn't
>    not remain stopped).

Do you have some systems management software that is sneaking in behind you
and modifying settings and starting it?

>    3. Rebooting the machine after the *systemctl disable auditd *also
>    didn't have any effect.

It should. I don't know how else it could get re-enabled without some systems
management software also configuring it when you're not looking.

-Steve

> I did set -e 1 in the audit.rules file so that I could stop the auditd on
> my demand, but the service restarts anyway.
>
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
> --------------------------
> Warron French




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