praudit(1) [mojave man page]
PRAUDIT(1) BSD General Commands Manual PRAUDIT(1) NAME
praudit -- print the contents of audit trail files SYNOPSIS
praudit [-lnpx] [-r | -s] [-d del] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The praudit utility prints the contents of the audit trail files to the standard output in human-readable form. If no file argument is spec- ified, the standard input is used by default. The options are as follows: -d del Specifies the delimiter. The default delimiter is the comma. -l Prints the entire record on the same line. If this option is not specified, every token is displayed on a different line. -n Do not convert user and group IDs to their names but leave in their numeric forms. -p Specify this option if input to praudit is piped from the tail(1) utility. This causes praudit to sync to the start of the next record. -r Prints the records in their raw form. Show records and event types in a numeric form (also known as raw form). This option is exclusive from -s. -s Prints the records in their short form. Show records and events in a short textual representation. This option is exclusive from -r. -x Print audit records in the XML output format. If the raw or short forms are not specified, the default is to print the tokens in their raw form. Events are displayed as per their descriptions given in /etc/security/audit_event; UIDs and GIDs are expanded to their names; dates and times are displayed in human-readable format. FILES
/etc/security/audit_class Descriptions of audit event classes. /etc/security/audit_event Descriptions of audit events. SEE ALSO
auditreduce(1), audit(4), auditpipe(4), audit_class(5), audit_event(5) 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. Addi- tional 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. BSD
August 4, 2009 BSD
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AUDITD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual AUDITD(8) NAME
auditd -- audit log management daemon SYNOPSIS
auditd [-d | -l] DESCRIPTION
The auditd 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 auditd is 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), launchd(8) 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. Addi- tional 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. BSD
December 11, 2008 BSD