audit messages to syslog

[Mahrud S]

Technically there shouldn't be lots of denial messages in audit log, unless
there is a *repeated* message with one of services or whatever, which should
be solved. is there any host with a heavy audit.log right now?
I guess we can start with those hosts with selinux enforcing (if it's
possible to do it partially) cause they probably have less messages.
btw: we cant save them for a long time, like few months at most I think.
(then it may probably exceed 2 or 3 hundred megabytes, I'm not sure how much
space is available)

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:13 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 13:56 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I'd like to try stopping auditd and having selinux audit messages go to
> > rsyslog (and thus be captured over on log02). This way we can have
> > epylog process those logs, they can be remote so we can have a remote
> > copy of them.
> >
> > This may result in some noise, but I think we can improve the epylog
> > selinux module and fix things, and it gives us another audit trail of
> > things happening on the machines where selinux is enabled.
> >
> > I think this should do it (in such a way we can easily back it out):
> >
> > diff --git a/modules/audit/manifests/init.pp
> > b/modules/audit/manifests/init.pp index 30f19c7..ced28a1 100644
> > --- a/modules/audit/manifests/init.pp
> > +++ b/modules/audit/manifests/init.pp
> > @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ class audit::auditd {
> >      include audit::package
> >
> >      service { auditd:
> > -        ensure => running,
> > -        enable => true,
> > +        ensure => stopped,
> > +        enable => false,
> >          require => Package['audit']
> >      }
> >
> > Thoughts? downsides? Alternate plans?
>
> Downsides:
>
>  it is A LOT of traffic.
>
> We should keep a close eye on how much noise it generates.
>
> -sv
>
>
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Best wishes
Mahrud <http://users.allamehelli.ir/%7Em_sayrafi/>
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