Key based rate limiter (audit_set_rate_limit)

Lenny Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Thu Mar 2 17:24:13 UTC 2023


On 3/1/23 22:13, Anurag Aggarwal wrote:

>     Or if selinux is in force, create policy for the events you
>     definitely want, then look for those types (either subject or
>     object) in your rule. This is something I've seen before, where
>     renames that are desired to be audited use the provided system
>     tools, but for locally developed application code, they are made
>     to run inside a certain type of a custom executable and then that
>     type is excluded from the rename syscall rule. Ideally, the code
>     which is written would self-audit a 1-liner like "I am going to
>     rename every file under dir /opt/special/stuff/" using
>     audit_log_user_message so you still have some idea what is
>     happening (if you care).
>
>     Then your "my-rename" program subject type of my_rename_t can be
>     used as an exclude on the rule. Of course, the caller must then
>     know to use this rather than the standard utilities.
>
>
> This sounds useful and might solve our problem, will it be possible to 
> share some examples on how this can be achieved?


Replying off-list as it is not specifically audit-focused. See Paul, I 
CAN learn. 😁

LCB

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Lenny Bruzenak
MagitekLTD
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