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= Managing the audit daemon (`auditd`) | ||
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Starting with the first release based on Fedora 39, Fedora CoreOS includes the audit daemon (`auditd`) to load and manage audit rules. | ||
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Like all system daemons on Fedora CoreOS, the audit daemon is managed by systemd but with an exception: it can not be stopped or restarted via `systemctl stop auditd` or `systemctl restart auditd` for compliance reasons. | ||
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From https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2664811[Unable to restart/stop auditd service using systemctl command in RHEL]: | ||
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"The reason for this unusual handling of restart/stop requests is that auditd is treated specially by the kernel: the credentials of a process that sends a killing signal to auditd are saved to the audit log. The audit developers do not want to see the credentials of PID 1 logged there. They want to see the login UID of the user who initiated the action." | ||
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To stop and restart the audit daemon, you should use the following commands: | ||
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[source,bash] | ||
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$ sudo auditctl --signal stop | ||
$ sudo systemctl start # Only if you want it started again | ||
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You may also use the following commands to reload the rules, rotate the logs, resume logging or dump the daemon state: | ||
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[source,bash] | ||
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$ sudo auditctl --signal reload | ||
$ sudo auditctl --signal rotate | ||
$ sudo auditctl --signal resume | ||
$ sudo auditctl --signal state | ||
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See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/auditctl.8.html[auditctl(8)] and https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/auditd.8.html[auditd(8)] for more details about those commands. |
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This feels like an odd fit under the "System Configuration" section, but I don't have a better suggestion. I guess maybe under "Reference pages" but it's not a great fit either.
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Agree, thought the same. I still haven't updated my "re-org" PR that could help with this.