rhel6/7 question

Are there any issues with a RHEL7 auditd collecting events from RHEL6 submitters?
How about any interpretation issues, on the RHEL7 side, of these events?

Thanks in advance,
LCB

LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
[email protected]

To my knowlege, there are no issues. Its pretty much the same software on both systems.

Just the usual user name/group interpretation issue. But if you spot anything else, let me know. With the ausearch-test application, I have been working to make interpretation and searching universally correct. This is only achieved with the latest audit packages.

As an aside, I have found that we also need an audit validation suite. What this would do is have someone start a system, login, logout, log back in, shut down the system, reboot and run the test to see if all necessary events have been generated, no duplicates, no spurious events, and fields are correct.

-Steve

Since people have asked about this off list...

I have uploaded a state diagram of how the audit system is supposed to work to my people page: http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/

This only includes the system events that give the user session context. The whole user session can do anything based on the local rules/selinux settings/file permissions. The point is to define the boundaries that can be used to constrain the possible user events.

I'll upload the suite in its current form a bit later. It is a work in progress...but identifies systemd as not being consistent in sending events. Not to mention lightdm not being audit aware at all...

-Steve

I re-organized the project page and put a place at the bottom for test suites. The 0.1 version can now be found at:

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/audit-validation-0.1.tar.gz

It is a work in progress. It has a long way to go. It needs help. Especially in correcting apps.

-Steve