proposed interface changes for filesystem audit

[Amy Griffis]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:22:20PM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:10, Amy Griffis wrote:
> > auditctl -a exit,always -S all -F path=/home/watchme
> 
> Thanks. That helps clarify it for me.
> 
> > These two rules would be functionally equivalent, but the first is
> > more convenient:
> >
> > auditctl -a exit,always -S fs-remove -F path=/home/watchme
> > auditctl -a exit,always -S rename -S rmdir -S unlink -F path=/home/watchme
> 
> Does your patch change the kernel to accept multiple syscalls in an audit 
> rule? Currently, we have 1 syscall per rule.

Yes, 1 syscall per rule has been the typical usage, but the kernel
actually supports multiple syscalls per rule (and possibly has from
the beginning).  So, something like this already works today:

auditctl -a exit,always -S rename -S rmdir -S unlink -F inode=1234

Amy