| AUDIT(4) | Device Drivers Manual | AUDIT(4) |
audit — Security
Event Audit
options AUDIT
Security Event Audit is a facility to provide fine-grained,
configurable logging of security-relevant events, and is intended to meet
the requirements of the Common Criteria (CC) Common Access Protection
Profile (CAPP) evaluation. The FreeBSD
audit facility implements the de facto industry
standard BSM API, file formats, and command line interface, first found in
the Solaris operating system. Information on the user space implementation
can be found in libbsm(3).
Audit support is enabled at boot, if present in the kernel, using
an rc.conf(5) flag. The audit daemon,
auditd(8), is responsible for configuring the kernel to
perform audit, pushing configuration data from the
various audit configuration files into the kernel.
The kernel audit facility provides a
special device, /dev/audit, which is used by
auditd(8) to monitor for audit
events, such as requests to cycle the log, low disk space conditions, and
requests to terminate auditing. This device is not intended for use by
applications.
Audit pipe special devices, discussed in auditpipe(4), provide a configurable live tracking mechanism to allow applications to tee the audit trail, as well as to configure custom preselection parameters to track users and events in a fine-grained manner.
auditreduce(1), praudit(1), audit(2), auditctl(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getauid(2), poll(2), select(2), setaudit(2), setauid(2), libbsm(3), auditpipe(4), audit.log(5), audit_class(5), audit_control(5), audit_event(5), audit_user(5), audit_warn(5), rc.conf(5), audit(8), auditd(8), auditdistd(8)
The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004. It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.
Support for kernel audit first appeared in
FreeBSD 6.2.
This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
This manual page was written by Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>.
The FreeBSD kernel does not fully validate that audit records submitted by user applications are syntactically valid BSM; as submission of records is limited to privileged processes, this is not a critical bug.
Instrumentation of auditable events in the kernel is not complete, as some system calls do not generate audit records, or generate audit records with incomplete argument information.
Mandatory Access Control (MAC) labels, as provided by the mac(4) facility, are not audited as part of records involving MAC decisions.
Currently the audit syscalls are not
supported for jailed processes. However, if a process has
audit session state associated with it, audit
records will still be produced and a zonename token containing the jail's ID
or name will be present in the audit records.
| May 31, 2009 | Debian |