How to audit the creation of symlinks ?

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Issue

  • Need to register the creation of links in the audit.log, mainly the unsuccessful ones.

  • The followung rules in audit.rules were tried without success:

    # auditctl -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S link -S symlink -F success=0 -F key=failed_link_creation
# auditclt -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S link,symlink -F key=link_events

  • No entries appear in audit.log or when using ausearch

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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