Once I tried something like touching a file, this worked as advertised, I'm using kernel:
2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 on Fedora 7 Thanks again - Pete Briggs On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:36 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2007 10:17:37 Pete Briggs wrote: > > Is there any way to put a watch on a directory, > > Sort of...RHEL5.1 will have subtree auditing working in it. Al Viro also sent > the patch upstream and should land in 2.6.23 or 24. > > > so that an audit record will be generated if anyone cd's to that directory. > > Not for cd'ing into a directory. They have to attempt to read, write, change > an attribute, or execute a file. > > > I've tried things like: > > > > -w /etc/audit/ -k ACCESS_AUDIT > > That is how you would watch a directory with current audit package and kernel > with the subtree auditing patch. > > > but the rule never seems to get invoked. I'm running FC7 with > > audit-1.5.3 > > They have to actually do something for it to trip...assuming you have a > kernel > that supports it. > > -Steve > -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
