Bug 447630

Summary:	auditctl -w /path -F arch=... not allowed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Component:	audit	Assignee:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Miloslav Trmač 2008-05-20 21:33:11 UTC

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
audit-1.7.3-1.fc9

Steps to Reproduce:
1. auditctl -a exit,always -F path=/etc/anacrontab -F arch=i386 -S afs_syscall
-k mydir
2. auditctl -w /etc/anacrontab -F arch=i386 -S afs_syscall -k mydir
  
Actual results:
1. succeeds
2. fails with "-F arch must be before -S"

Expected results:
2. succeeds - 1. and 2. are really the same rule.

Comment 1 Steve Grubb 2008-05-20 21:56:54 UTC

The second form is expected to fail. The -w rule construct is for backwards
compatibility with RHEL4. Its limited to just -k and -p options. Any other
option should fail.

To use the advanced features of the new rule/watch system, you should express
the rules in the form of syscall auditing with a path or dir field option.

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2008-05-21 00:10:02 UTC

Thanks, I have modified system-config-audit to respect these rules.  Other users
might find them useful, please document them in auditctl(8).

The existing error message should be more general, currently the error message
reports something that obviously isn't true.

Comment 3 Steve Grubb 2008-05-21 14:53:57 UTC

I agree that this could be better explained. I'll see if we can update the man
pages as well as auditctl.

Comment 4 Steve Grubb 2008-11-20 21:24:06 UTC

A better explanation was added in svn commit 193. Closing this out. Thanks for pointing out the documentation problem.