EXT :Re: Exclude Watched Items

[Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS)]

I'll give that a shot.  How do I find out what the supported message types are?

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From: Richard Guy Briggs [mailto:rgb at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 11:23 PM
To: Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) <Kevin.Boyce at ngc.com>
Cc: linux-audit at redhat.com
Subject: EXT :Re: Exclude Watched Items

On 2017-05-15 21:08, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) wrote:
> Ok I admit I should know how to do this, but it is evident I do not.
> 
> On RHEL 5.11, what is the correct way for me to not audit anything in /proc?
> 
> I had tried:
> -d entry,always -S all -F dir=/proc
> -a exclude,always -F dir=/proc
> 
> Both of these are ignored.  The first makes sense because I guess -d 
> must match exactly a rule already loaded in the kernel.

"-d" says delete the rule.  (I think the entry list is deprecated.)

> The second is telling me I have an invalid message type, but I can't 
> seem to find the valid message types documented in the man pages.

The exclude list only supports "-F msgtype=" on anything that old.

More types are supported upstream and only very recent RHEL7.

> Other systemcalls which are audited are open, fopen, chown, chattr, etc.
> I am trying to prevent auditing of the open syscall on /proc/...
> because there are a lot of them, and it is not a requirement.

How about "-a exit,never -F dir=/proc"?

> Kevin

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