OpenBSM 1.0
Introduction
OpenBSM provides an open source implementation of Sun's BSM Audit API.
Originally created under contract to Apple Computer by McAfee Research,
this implementation is now maintained by volunteers and the generous
contribution of several organizations. Coupled with a kernel audit
implementation, OpenBSM can be used to maintain system audit streams, and
is a foundation for an Audit-enabled system.
Contents
OpenBSM consists of several directories:
bin/ Audit-related command line tools
bsm/ System include files for BSM
etc/ Sample /etc/security configuration files
libbsm/ Implementation of BSM library interfaces and man pages
man/ System call and configuration file man pages
OpenBSM currently builds on FreeBSD and Darwin. With Makefile adjustment
and minor tweaks, it should build without problems on a broad range of
POSIX-like systems.
Building
OpenBSM is currently built using a series of BSD make files which should
work on both FreeBSD and Darwin. One known issue is that versions of
Darwin prior to 10.3.8 have a nested include of "sys/audit.h" from
"sys/proc.h", which can result in type definition conflicts. If running
with include files from an earlier version of Darwin, the nested include
must be manually removed in order that libbsm can be built, due to
potentially conflicting types resulting from an include of "sys/sysctl.h"
by that file. On Darwin, the use of BSD make must be specified explicitly
by using "bsdmake" rather than "make", which on Darwin refers to GNU make.
Typical invocations from the OpenBSM tree root:
FreeBSD
% make
# make install
Darwin
% bsdmake
# bsdmake install
Credits
The following organizations and individuals have contributed substantially
to the development of OpenBSM:
Apple Computer, Inc.
McAfee Research, McAfee, Inc.
SPARTA, Inc.
Robert Watson
Wayne Salamon
Suresh Krishnaswamy
Kevin Van Vechten
Tom Rhodes
Wojciech Koszek
Chunyang Yuan
Poul-Henning Kamp
In addition, Coverity, Inc.'s Prevent(tm) static analysis tool and Gimpel
Software's FlexeLint tool were used to identify a number of bugs in the
OpenBSM implementation.
Contributions
The TrustedBSD Project would appreciate the contribution of bug fixes,
enhancements, etc, under identically or substantially similar licenses to
those present on the remainder of the OpenBSM source code.
Location
Information on OpenBSM may be found on the OpenBSM home page:
http://www.OpenBSM.org/
Information on TrustedBSD may be found on the TrustedBSD home page:
http://www.TrustedBSD.org/
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