Duplicate Rule situation

[Richard Guy Briggs]

On 2021-06-21 12:52, warron.french wrote:
> Does anybody know if I put the following two rules into the same
> audit.rules file and reboot the server will we end up with some broken
> rules?
> 
> -w /etc/audit/         -p a -k watch_audit
> -w /etc/audit/rules.d/ -p a -k watch_audit
> 
> Will this cause a problem due to duplicate rules?

These are two distinct rules, but redundant, so there won't be any
conflict, but the second rule will never trigger.

If you want finer grained triggering under one rule, likely with a
different key, try instead something like:

-w /etc/audit/rules.d/	-p a -k watch_audit_rules_d
-w /etc/audit/		-p a -k watch_audit

> Warron French

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