On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:32:55 PM EDT Steve Grubb wrote: > On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 9:22:57 AM EDT Chris Nandor wrote: > > Secondary question: the reason for what I'm working on is that we want to > > be able to audit what folks do as root on our production hosts. We're not > > a bank, and a perfect solution is not required, but we do need to be able > > to take reasonable steps to find out if people with access are doing bad > > things. > > > > Is this setup reasonable for that purpose? > > Yes. You would want to do two things, first enable tty auditing. This is > done by the pam_tty_audit module. Second consider adding the > 32-power-abuse.rules to your rules. > > > I know that's a loaded question > > and I can answer any questions anyone has that are necessary to figure > > this > > out. I am not asking so much about rules, but about architecture: logging > > according to whatever rules we set up, to the local audit.log and > > immediately to a remote using audisp-remote, so the log can't be easily > > manipulated. > > Remote logging is the defence against local log manipulation.
Another thing to consider is that the 2.6 version of the audit user space has a new logging format. You might consider going into auditd.conf and setting log_format = enriched. This resolves some information locally before sending it to the remote system. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
