Re: HEADS UP: Audit integration into CVS in progress, some tree disruption

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

> As Wayne and I are in the process of merging the TrustedBSD audit3 branch 
> contents into the FreeBSD CVS HEAD (7-CURRENT), there may be periods where 
> the tree is (hopefully briefly) unbuildable.  This integration process will 
> take a couple of days to complete, due to the scope of the changes.  So far, 
> the kernel audit framework has been committed (src/sys/security/audit), as 
> has an initial vendor import of OpenBSM for user space 
> (src/contrib/openbsm). What remains to be committed are the substantial 
> changes to gather audit data in system calls, the mappings of system calls 
> to audit events, and integration into the user space build and user space 
> applications (such as login).  These bits are the trickier bits as the 
> patches are large and touch a lot of parts of the tree.
>
> I'll send out follow-up e-mail once the worst is past, along with 
> information on what it all means, and how to try it out (for those not 
> already on trustedbsd-audit, who have been hearing about this for a while).

FYI, the current status is that the merge is continuing.  So far we have 
merged:

- OpenBSM library, commands, man pages, include files, etc.
- sys/security/audit audit event management framework
- etc/rc.d boot script, makefiles
- Mapping of FreeBSD native system calls to audit events.

To go are:

- Mappings of non-native system calls to audit events.
- Auditing of system call arguments.
- Submission of audit records by user space components.

So there are now enough pieces in the tree to configure auditing and see basic 
../../../security/audit/audit_bsm_token.c system call traces.  More to follow 
in the next couple of days.

Robert N M Watson