audit_event(5)

audit_event5

Audit event descriptions

Overview

The audit_event file contains descriptions of the auditable events on the system. Each line maps an audit event number to a name, a description, and a class. Entries are of the form:

eventnum:eventname:description:eventclass

Each eventclass should have a corresponding entry in the audit_class(5) file.

Example entries in this file are:

0:AUE_NULL:indir system call:no
1:AUE_EXIT:exit(2):pc
2:AUE_FORK:fork(2):pc
3:AUE_OPEN:open(2):fa

Files

/etc/security/audit_event

Releases

47 releases since FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.2
  2. 6.3–7.4
  3. 8.0–10.2
  4. 10.3–16.0

History

The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004. It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.

Authors

This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.

The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.

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