On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 11:43 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > Note that audit watches don't use inotify to do any of the actual > auditing. They just use inotify to discover the watched files were > created or removed. So we weren't using much of the inotify feature > set.
Eric, thanks for the thorough explanation. It's been a while since I last looked, but the file watches are being audited at the syscall level, right? So inotify/fsnotify is used to associate a filename to an inode when the file is created, or to deassociate when it is removed. Is the rename/mv also covered by those or differently? I remember that moving a file around doesn't invalidate it's rule (the file's inode is still the same), but auditctl -l doesn't follow the name around, for example. But that's also probably the right thing to do in that case, I'm not sure. -Klaus -- Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <[email protected]> Linux Security Development, IBM Linux Technology Center -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
