Security audit rules

[Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. (EXT - IN/Chennai)]

That's clear on the rules. Thanks for that, but my question is where should I place the file called 'audit.rules'. It should be under '/etc/audit' or '/etc/audit/rules.d' or in both places.

Regards,
Vezhavendan K

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:39 PM
To: linux-audit at redhat.com
Cc: Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. (EXT - IN/Chennai) <vezhavendan.1.kadirvadivelu.ext at nokia.com>; Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Security audit rules

On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 11:36:38 PM EST Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. 
(EXT - IN/Chennai) wrote:
> I am using RHEL7.6 version (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Maipo)).

This distribution wants rules placed in /etc/audit/rules.d/ The audit package should have a file named README-rules that explains what is expected.

-Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:03 AM
> To: Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. (EXT - IN/Chennai) 
> <vezhavendan.1.kadirvadivelu.ext at nokia.com> Cc: linux-audit at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Security audit rules
> 
> On 2019-11-08 12:52, Kadirvadivelu, Vezhavendan 1. (EXT - IN/Chennai)
wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In one of the VM I find audit.rules defined under /etc/audit as well 
> > as /etc/audit/rules.d.
> > 
> > What is the significance as well as difference between the files 
> > found in
> > 2 places.
> You haven't said what distro you are using.  In more recent distros, 
> the rules in rules.d are used by augenrules to populate audit.rules, 
> overwriting them.
> > Also please let me know what is the correct location where 
> > audit.rules need to be places.
> Depends on your distro.
> 
> > Vezhavendan K
> 
> - RGB
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