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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:38:06 -0500
From:      "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        dexterclarke@Safe-mail.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: audit doesn't seem to be working correctly.
Message-ID:  <20071007143806.GA65868@sub.vaned.net>
In-Reply-To: <N1-_oTpkG9K9c@Safe-mail.net>
References:  <N1-_oTpkG9K9c@Safe-mail.net>

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I think I have isolated the problem and I am working on a fix.  For now
if you want to experiement with audit you should be able to work around
this bug by adding an entry into /etc/security/audit_user.

Thanks for your report.

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:21:19AM -0400, dexterclarke@Safe-mail.net wrote:
> After reading this article:
> 
> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/11/13/freebsd_security_event_auditing/
> 
> I decided to try audit. I edited /etc/security/audit_control
> as the article (and the handbook example) shows:
> 
> dir:/var/audit
> flags:lo,+ex
> minfree:20
> naflags:lo
> policy:cnt
> filesz:0
> 
> But having restarted auditd, I don't see audit events for
> process execution being generated. However, if I do this:
> 
> dir:/var/audit
> flags:lo
> minfree:20
> naflags:lo,+ex
> policy:cnt
> filesz:0
> 
> I get audit records for users executing programs. This seems
> completely wrong to me. Why are these events being classed as
> non-attributable when they're clearly being created by
> authenticated users?
> 
> I am running 6.2-RELEASE-p7 which is vanilla apart from the
> addition of options MAC, AUDIT and VESA.
> 
> --
> dc
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Christian S.J. Peron
csjp@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer



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