audit events w/o audit rules?

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2018-03-12 22:30, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:55:32 -0700
> Todd Heberlein <todd_heberlein at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> > Following the poor practice of replying to my own email :(
> > 
> > Apparently most of the data in audit.log is associated with PAM
> > auditing.
> > 
> > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/security_guide/sec-configuring_pam_for_auditing#sec-configuring_pam_tty_audit
> tps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit  
> 
> There are hardwired events (events that show up no matter what the
> rules say) that come from things that are required. For example: logins,
> logouts, adding a user, deleting a user, changing a password, etc. These
> are usually documented in our STIG rules saying this requirement is met
> due to hardwired events.

To add to what Steve said, if you are really certain you don't want to
see certain types of events/records, you can create exclude rules to
drop them.  Some of the events are kernel-generated and some are
user-generated.

> -Steve

- RGB

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