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 autoconf and automake, which should allow
for building on a range of operating systems, including FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
and Linux. Depending on the availability of audit facilities in the
underlying operating system, some components that depend on kernel audit
support are built conditionally. Typically, build will be performed using
./configure
make
To install, use:
make install
You may wish to specify that the OpenBSM components not be installed in the
base system, rather in a specific directory. This may be done using the
--prefix argument to configure. If installing to a specific directory,
remember to update your library path so that running tools from that
directory the correct libbsm is used:
./configure --prefix=/home/rwatson/openbsm
make
make install
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/rwatson/openbsm/libbsm ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
You will need to manually propagate openbsm/etc/* into /etc on your system;
this is not done automatically so as to avoid disrupting the current
configuration. Currently, the locations of these files is not
configurable.
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
Christian Brueffer
Olivier Houchard
Christian Peron
Martin Fong
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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