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monitor access rights to files on a vmware vsphere server

mritorto
New Member

Guys

can splunk help monitor the access rights for the following files on a vmware vpshere server?

• etc/profile • /etc/ssh/sshd_config • /etc/pam.d/system-auth • /etc/login.defs • /etc/ntp • /etc/ntp.conf • /etc/passwd • /etc/group • /etc/sudoers • /etc/shadow • ./etc/vmware

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gavind
Explorer

Any takers for this yet?

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bbingham
Builder

Can you elaborate more on what you're trying to accomplish? Are you trying to find out when someone writes to these files? Are you just looking to record the log when someone changed something in VCenter?

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