Thursday, July 1, 2021

Auditing file changes in Linux

Enable the audit log for directory /var/log/cassandra on a Cassandra node

Add below rule for the directory to audit, here we are search for deleted files under /var/log/cassandra directory.

sudo vi /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F dir=/var/log/cassandra -S unlink -S unlinkat -S rename -S renameat -S rmdir -k delete_var

sudo service auditd restart

Verify rules: sudo auditctl -l

Verify: sudo ausearch -k delete_var

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