Auditing file access by application

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2017-06-12 10:20, John Petrini wrote:
> Hello,

Hi John,

> We have a need to monitor voicemail directories for any sort of access.
> Basically there is only one application that should be accessing the files.
> If anything else accesses the files we need to log that.
> 
> We setup the following to accomplish this but it's doesn't quite do what we
> want.
> 
> -a always,exit -S all -F dir=/path/to/voicemail -F perm=rwxa -F
> auid!=voicemail_user -F key=voicemail_watch
> 
> voicemail_user is the user that initially starts the process. The problem
> arises when someone logged in under a different account restarts the
> process. From that point forward every time the application accesses that
> directory it results in a log message.
> 
> We need other users to be able to be able to log in and restart the process
> so our method here really doesn't work. Is there a way to log only if a
> different application access the directory rather than basing the audit on
> user?
> 
> I was hoping to us something like -F exe!="/path/to/application" but it
> looks like this is not supported.

How about trying:

-a never,exit -S all -F exe="/path/to/application" -F dir=/path/to/voicemail -F perm=rwxa -F auid!=voicemail_user -F key=voicemail_watch
-a always,exit -S all -F dir=/path/to/voicemail -F perm=rwxa -F auid!=voicemail_user -F key=voicemail_watch

Meanwhile, I've filed an issue to add negation to "-F exe=".
	https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/53

I hope this helps.

> John Petrini

- RGB

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