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man page, auditpipe.4, which describes the behavior of audit pipes, the ioctls, preselection, etc. Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
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.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Robert N. M. Watson
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd May 5, 2006
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.Os
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.Dt AUDIT 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm audit
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.Nd Security Event Audit
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "options AUDIT"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Security Event Audit is a facility to provide fine-grained, configurable
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logging of security-relevant events, and is intended to meet the requirements
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of the Common Criteria (CC) Common Access Protection Profile (CAPP)
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evaluation.
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The
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.Fx
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audit facility implements the de facto industry standard BSM API, file
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formats, and command line interface, first found in the Solaris operating
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system.
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Information on the user space implementation can be found in
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.Xr libbsm 3 .
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.Pp
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Audit support is enabled at boot, if present in the kernel, using an
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.Xr rc.conf 5
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flag.
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The audit daemon,
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.Xr auditd 8 ,
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is responsible for configuring the kernel to perform audit, pushing
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configuration data from the various audit configuration files into the
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kernel.
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.Ss Audit Special Device
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The kernel audit facility provides a special device,
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.Pa /dev/audit ,
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which is used by
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.Xr auditd 8
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to monitor for audit events, such as requests to cycle the log, low disk
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space conditions, and requests to terminate auditing.
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This device is not intended for use by applications.
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.Ss Audit Pipe Special Devices
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Audit pipe special devices, discussed in
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.Xr auditpipe 4 ,
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provide a configurable live tracking mechanism to allow applications to
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tee the audit trail, as well as to configure custom preselection paramaters
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to track users and events in a fine-grained manner.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr auditreduce 1 ,
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.Xr praudit 1 ,
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.Xr audit 2 ,
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.Xr auditctl 2 ,
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.Xr auditon 2 ,
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.Xr getaudit 2 ,
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.Xr getauid 2 ,
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.Xr poll 2 ,
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.Xr select 2 ,
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.Xr setaudit 2 ,
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.Xr setauid 2 ,
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.Xr libbsm 3 ,
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.Xr auditpipe 4 ,
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.Xr audit.log 5 ,
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.Xr audit_class 5 ,
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.Xr audit_control 5 ,
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.Xr audit_event 5 ,
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.Xr audit_user 5 ,
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.Xr audit_warn 5 ,
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.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
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.Xr audit 8 ,
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.Xr auditd 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
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of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
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Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.
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.Pp
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The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
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stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
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.Pp
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This manual page was written by
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.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
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division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004.
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It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
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the OpenBSM distribution.
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.Pp
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Support for kernel audit first appeared in
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.Fx 6.1 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The audit facility in
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.Fx
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is considered experimental, and production deployment should occur only after
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careful consideration of the risks of deploying experimental software.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fx
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kernel does not fully validate that audit records submitted by user
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applications are syntactically valid BSM; as submission of records is limited
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to privileged processes, this is not a critical bug.
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.Pp
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Instrumentation of auditable events in the kernel is not complete, as some
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system calls do not generate audit records, or generate audit records with
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incomplete argument information.
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.Pp
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Mandatory Access Control (MAC) labels, as provided by the
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.Xr mac 4
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facility, are not audited as part of records involving MAC decisions.
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