audit.rules file [Was: audit 2.3 released]

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Wed, 01 May 2013 10:29:07 -0400,
Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
Hello,

[...]
> 
> Several people have asked for a way to deposit rules into a directory
> so that based on what is installed, rules can also be added. This
> makes it easier to have a core system that gets packages, config, and
> files added to make it a different kind of server or desktop. My
> guess is that it will be mostly used to add watches on setuid apps
> which can differ from machine type to machine type.
> 
> The place where these rules are stored is /etc/audit/rules.d.
> Compiling rules from that directory will result in a new file being
> written to /etc/audit/audit.rules. That means it can overwrite
> existing rules. Since we don't want that to happen by accident,
> augenrules is disabled by default.
[...]

The make install rule is now installing audit.rules in
the /etc/audit/rules.d directory.

What would happen on fresh installation if augenrules call is disabled
and that /etc/audit/audit.rules is not existing?

Will /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules be called as a fallback? Or should
distributions take care of shipping both /etc/audit/audit.rules
and /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules?

What do you think?

Cheers

Laurent Bigonville