NAME
auditd —
audit log management daemon
SYNOPSIS
auditd |
[-d | -l] |
DESCRIPTION
Theauditd daemon responds to requests from the
audit(8) utility and notifications from the kernel. It manages the
resulting audit log files and specified log file locations.
The options are as follows:
-d- Starts the daemon in debug mode — it will not daemonize.
-l- This option is for when
auditdis configured to start on-demand using launchd(8).
Optionally, the audit review group "audit" may be created. Non-privileged users that are members of this group may read the audit trail log files.
NOTE
To assure uninterrupted audit support, the
auditd daemon should not be started and stopped
manually. Instead, the
audit(8) command should be used to inform the daemon to change
state/configuration after altering the audit_control
file.
If auditd is started on-demand by
launchd(8) then auditing should only be started and stopped with
audit(8).
On Mac OS X, auditd uses the
asl(3) API for writing system log messages. Therefore, only the audit
administrator and members of the audit review group will be able to read the
system log entries.
FILES
- /var/audit
- Default directory for storing audit log files.
- /etc/security
- The directory containing the auditing configuration files audit_class(5), audit_control(5), audit_event(5), and audit_warn(5).
COMPATIBILITY
The historical -h and
-s flags are now configured using
audit_control(5) policy flags ahlt
and cnt, and are no longer available as arguments to
auditd.
SEE ALSO
asl(3), libauditd(3), audit(4), audit_class(5), audit_control(5), audit_event(5), audit_warn(5), audit(8), auditdistd(8), launchd(8) (Mac OS X)
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.