On 5/7/2010 2:14 PM, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on problems caused by users mistakenly leaving excessive
> write permissions on the directories of their webpages.  Does anyone
> know if there is a best practices or other guidance document
> somewhere?   I realize the problem might not be so different from
> webpages hosted on non-AFS filesystems.
> 
> One solution we're considering is regularly scanning our webspace for
> excessively naive ACLs, but this is quite time consuming. Is there a
> faster way to search for specific ACLs than various incantations of
> gfind to fs-listacl, perhaps something that dumps all the ACLs of a
> volume, assuming they are kept on one spot?
> 
> Thanks for any possible insights.
> 
> ~Kevin

There are audit logs that you can turn on which will log every
ACL change.  Audit log output can be written to a pipe so that
a process can scan then in real time.  You can then have that
process send e-mail, log warnings, or even alter the ACL if
necessary.

There will be a talk at the upcoming workshop describing how
a combination of dump scanning and audit stream parsing was
used to enforce export compliance regulations.

Jeffrey Altman

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