How To Install audit on CentOS 8
audit is User space tools for kernel auditing
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audit on CentOS 8.
What is audit
The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 and later kernels.
We can use yum or dnf to install audit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install audit.
Install audit on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install audit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install audit
Install audit on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install audit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install audit
How To Uninstall audit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the audit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove audit
audit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/audit
/etc/audit/audit-stop.rules
/etc/audit/audit.rules
/etc/audit/auditd.conf
/etc/audit/plugins.d
/etc/audit/plugins.d/af_unix.conf
/etc/audit/rules.d
/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules
/sbin/auditctl
/sbin/auditd
/sbin/augenrules
/sbin/aureport
/sbin/ausearch
/sbin/autrace
/usr/bin/aulast
/usr/bin/aulastlog
/usr/bin/ausyscall
/usr/bin/auvirt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/9588159b2c1d381e0009732b54ce97da7b17c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/1052661cfd20ef0d9b23f49dad54239e24e922
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/4ab1b943d76fa8ffaec6308651824951e7bb51
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/3068d248257c264ae4b739355a99570db4c1fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/9f6bedfac211c5af8b3671e32df855f56723b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/1a98cbc4f1a336d8cfeec62b4a80d84d2ff382
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/d4e13abe6efbf9e1f9ea97366836412c58a53a
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/7ae37d3de33002ae9d1bc3794b6af771407856
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/2f366391636c4f15a6a67f3f1f74444a690404
/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/condrestart
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/reload
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/restart
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/resume
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/rotate
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/state
/usr/libexec/initscripts/legacy-actions/auditd/stop
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/10-base-config.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/10-no-audit.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/11-loginuid.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/12-cont-fail.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/12-ignore-error.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/20-dont-audit.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/21-no32bit.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/22-ignore-chrony.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/23-ignore-filesystems.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-nispom.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-1-create-failed.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-1-create-success.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-2-modify-failed.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-2-modify-success.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-3-access-failed.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-3-access-success.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-4-delete-failed.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-4-delete-success.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-5-perm-change-failed.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-5-perm-change-success.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-6-owner-change-failed.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42-6-owner-change-success.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-ospp-v42.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-pci-dss-v31.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/30-stig.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/31-privileged.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/32-power-abuse.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/40-local.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/41-containers.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/42-injection.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/43-module-load.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/70-einval.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/71-networking.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/99-finalize.rules
/usr/share/audit/sample-rules/README-rules
/usr/share/doc/audit
/usr/share/doc/audit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/audit/README
/usr/share/doc/audit/auditd.cron
/usr/share/licenses/audit
/usr/share/licenses/audit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/auditd-plugins.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/auditd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ausearch-expression.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/audit.rules.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/auditctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/auditd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/augenrules.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aulast.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aulastlog.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aureport.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ausearch.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ausyscall.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/autrace.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/auvirt.8.gz
/var/log/audit
/var/run/auditd.state
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.