Does WebALARM Agent (Linux) operation impacted by changing "wa.services" file attribute?
Environment:
OS : RHEL v7.3
WAA version: v4.3.4
Question:
Does WebALARM Agent (Linux) operation impacted by changing "wa.services" file attribute?
For example, changing wa.services default attribute from 777 to 644
Answer: NO
The following scenario tested successfully after changing the file attribute from 777 to 644.
1. Restart WA service. - OK. WAA related logs were still injected in /var/log/messages
2. Perform simple tampering. - OK. WAA related logs were still injected in /var/log/messages
Action:
Maintenance Support to modify WebALARM installation script by defaulting related services file attribute to 644 in the next release.