note for the USGCB tickets (UNCLASSIFIED)

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Jul 11 14:36:21 UTC 2013


On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:39:39 PM Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> "Either order is valid syntax"
> 
> I could have sworn that this blew up in my face at some point. Perhaps a
> different patch set fixed it.

Either order is valid syntax for auditctl. Its been this way since RHEL4. Its 
not valid if you are running a scanner with a hardcoded ordering.

-Steve


> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > - RHEL5 wants audit rules to start with "exit,always"; RHEL6 wants
> > > > them
> > > > to start with "always,exit".  Note that some of the actual RHEL6
> > > > benchmark content checks for both (e.g. adjtimex), while some (the
> > > > majority) does not (e.g. chmod).
> > > > 
> > > > -> This was a change in auditd itself. "exit,always" is no longer
> > > > valid.
> > 
> > Either order is valid syntax. However, people were asking for order out of
> > chaos and I went through all audit rules and fixed them (in upstream
> > audit) all
> > to have one ordering. This was not because auditctl would reject the rule,
> > its
> > because configuration testers need one order so that rules can be
> > verified.
> > 
> > -Steve
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