RHEL 6 audit.rules question

[Dan White]

On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:58 AM, rshaw1 at umbc.edu wrote:

>> On Jul 30, 2014, at 04:33 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 08:21:45 PM Dan White wrote:
>>>> Does the system allow for the import/include of groups of rules
>>> in other
>>>> files - like logrotate and /etc/logrotate.d/* ?
>>> 
>>> No, but in 2.3 and later there is a /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory where
>>> rules
>>> can be dropped off. The augenrules utility will "compile" those into a
>>> master
>>> audit.rules file. You also have to enable augenrules by setting
>>> USE_AUGENRULES="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/audit. that is about as close as
>>> it
>>> comes.
>>> 
>>> -Steve
>> 
>> Thanks for the quick answer.
>> Any plans to release 2.3.x to RHEL 6 that can be shared ?
> 
> I was able to "backport" this functionality to RHEL6 (and RHEL5) by doing
> the following:
> 
> - Steal the augenrules script from a Fedora or RHEL7 package
> - Use my configuration management system to create and manage files in
> /etc/audit/rules.d
> - Schedule periodic runs of augenrules
> 
> I didn't have to set USE_AUGENRULES (maybe because the older audit system
> doesn't know to care?).  It has been working very well for me as a way of
> managing differences in audit rules on systems while still keeping things
> centralized.
> 
> --Ray
> 

Great idea.  I may explore that.
Thanks.

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