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Date:      Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:46:41 +0200
From:      "George Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To:        "Aniket Pandey" <aniketp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        soc-status@freebsd.org, "Alan Somers" <asomers@freebsd.org>, "Robert N.M. Watson" <robert.watson@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject:   Re: [GSoC-18] Regression Test-Suite for Audit Framework [Weeks: 9-12]
Message-ID:  <24038F0F-9267-4D3B-A85E-E09F9BB67345@neville-neil.com>
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Hello Aniket,

Thanks for the excellent work for the GSoC this year, I, personally, am =

impressed with how much you were able to achieve and I look forward to =

you continuing to work on FreeBSD, whether on audit, or on any other =

part of the system.

Best,
George


On 6 Aug 2018, at 14:50, Aniket Pandey wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This is my final report for SoC-18. I did not update you all about my
> progress for the last 4 weeks because there wasn't much left to do in =

> the
> primary audit(4) test-suite. I had instead been working on converting =

> the
> regression tests for auditpipe(4) to ATF and validating the proper
> functioning of auditon(2) system call, which provides various ioctl =

> like
> commands to manipulate the system auditing.
>
> My fall semester started last week so I had to shift my attention from =

> the
> GSoC work. I've been keeping track of certain features of audit(4)
> subsystem which need improvements and would keep working on them =

> throughout
> the year. The full list of merged revisions which I created or =

> reviewed can
> be found at my project homepage[1] and in the main Github =

> repository[2].
>
> The audit(4) test-suite can be found in FreeBSD src:
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/tests/sys/audit
>
> The code of my stretch goal, i.e test-suite for praudit(1) and =

> auditpipe(4)
> can be found here[3] and here[4] in Head. The in-progress tests for
> auditon(2) are available in my Github AuditTestSuite repository[2].
>
> In the end, I would like to thank my mentors, Alan Somers, Robert N. =

> M.
> Watson and George Neville-Neil for all the help they provided during =

> the
> summers, and especially the prompt responses from Alan, which I feel =

> is the
> reason I could successfully complete the project. Also, thanks to =

> Shivansh
> for helping me get started with FreeBSD and guiding me during the
> application period, otherwise I'm not sure if I could have learned =

> about
> the inner working of FreeBSD operating system in such a short span of =

> time.
>
> And thanks to The FreeBSD Project for accepting this project and =

> welcoming
> me into their community!
>
> Thank You,
> With best regards,
> Aniket Pandey
>
> [1]
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2018Projects/RegressionTestSuiteFo=
rAuditFramework
>
> [2] https://github.com/aniketp/AuditTestSuite
>
> [3] =

> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/usr.sbin/praudit/tests
>
> [4] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/tests/sys/auditpipe





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