On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:18:55 AM EDT warron.french wrote: > It appears that this directory is not used at all on RHEL6. > > I know I have mentioned this before; but it's true. If I *move* my copy of > audit.rules from /etc/audit into the subdirectory rules.d and restart > audit; the audit.rules file is not recopied/regenerated or whatever by the > auditd. > > This behavior is different from RHEL7; where if you delete the > /etc/audit/audit.rules file or move it to /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules; > the auditd functions as I expect.
This is mostly correct. The issue with RHEL 6 is that the augenrules program didn't exist when RHEL 6 was originally shipped. So, it would have been bad and unexpected for the behavior to suddenly change during an update to a shipped product. However, augenrules is useful and for anyone that wants to use it on RHEL 6 they may do so by opting in. If you read the text in /etc/sysconfig/auditd you will see an explanation of how to enable augenrules. -Steve > Can someone please correct my understanding? Is the /etc/audit/rules.d > directory not supposed to be usable in RHEL6; but is in RHEL7? > -------------------------- > Warron French -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
