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Bug 2165013 - aide excludes everything under specified directory even when a pattern matches
Summary: aide excludes everything under specified directory even when a pattern matches
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: aide
Version: 8.7
Hardware: All
OS: All
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Radovan Sroka
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-01-27 11:28 UTC by Renaud Métrich
Modified: 2023-08-16 15:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-08-16 15:18:46 UTC
Type: Bug
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pm-rhel: mirror+

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Red Hat Issue Tracker   RHEL-1382 0 None None None 2023-08-16 15:18:45 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-146689 0 None None None 2023-01-27 11:29:39 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker SECENGSP-4996 0 None None None 2023-01-27 11:29:42 UTC

Description Renaud Métrich 2023-01-27 11:28:31 UTC 
Description of problem:

A customer wants to exclude a directory in general but include some items under a subdirectory.

The aide.conf(5) manpage shows such example:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
          Add all but directory entries to the database:

             !/run d
             /run R
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

Trying the example on my system (and removing everything else for clarity), as soon as "!/run d" is specified, nothing gets collected under "/run":
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
# aide -i
[...]
Number of entries:	0
[...]
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

If I remove "!/run d", then files are collected:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
# aide -i
[...]
Number of entries:	585
[...]
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

It hence looks like exclusion gets precedence and there is no way to achieve what we want here.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

aide-0.16-14.el8_5.1.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove all rules starting from "# Next decide what directories/files you want in the database." comment
2. Add rules on /run

  !/run d
  /run R

3. Initialize the database

Actual results:

No file entry saved in database

Expected results:

A certain number of file entries saved in database
Comment 1 Radovan Sroka 2023-08-16 15:13:47 UTC 
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