File change notification along with user

rohan puri rohan.puri15 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 00:57:29 EDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, V.Ravikumar
<ravikumar.vallabhu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to write a module/driver which notifies file/directory
> change asynchronously along with user name(or with uid) who modified it.
>
> inotify will do change notification but it will not provide uid who
> modified/created the file.
>
> audit and inotify combination can work, but I'm looking for a better option
> than this.
>
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>
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> You can have a look at fanotify.

Refer http://lwn.net/Articles/339253/

Regards,
Rohan Puri
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