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1OpenBSM 1.0
2
3  Introduction
4
5OpenBSM provides an open source implementation of Sun's BSM Audit API.
6Originally created under contract to Apple Computer by McAfee Research, this
7implementation is now maintained by volunteers and the generous contribution
8of several organizations.  Coupled with a kernel audit implementation,
9OpenBSM can be used to maintain system audit streams, and is a foundation for
10an Audit-enabled system.  Portions of OpenBSM, including include files and
11token-building routines, are reusable in a kernel audit implementation, and
12may be found in the FreeBSD and Mac OS X kernels.
13
14  Contents
15
16OpenBSM consists of several directories:
17
18    bin/           Audit-related command line tools
19    bsm/           System include files for BSM
20    compat/        Compatibility code to build on various OS's
21    etc/           Sample /etc/security configuration files
22    libbsm/        Implementation of BSM library interfaces and man pages
23    man/           System call and configuration file man pages
24    modules/       Directory for auditfilterd module source
25    test/          Test token sets and geneneration program
26    tools/         Tool directory, including audump to dump databases
27
28The following programs are included with OpenBSM:
29
30    audit          Command line audit control tool
31    auditd         Audit management daemon
32    auditfilterd   Experimental event monitoring framework
33    auditreduce    Audit trail reduction tool
34    audump         Debugging tool to parse and print audit databases
35    praudit        Tool to print audit trails
36
37  Building
38
39OpenBSM is currently built using autoconf and automake, which should allow
40for building on a range of operating systems, including FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
41and Linux.  Depending on the availability of audit facilities in the
42underlying operating system, some components that depend on kernel audit
43support are built conditionally.  Typically, build will be performed using:
44
45    ./configure
46    make
47
48To install, use:
49
50    make install
51
52You may wish to specify that the OpenBSM components not be installed in the
53base system, rather in a specific directory.  This may be done using the
54--prefix argument to configure.  If installing to a specific directory,
55remember to update your library path so that running tools from that
56directory the correct libbsm is used:
57
58    ./configure --prefix=/home/rwatson/openbsm
59    make
60    make install
61    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/rwatson/openbsm/libbsm ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
62
63You will need to manually propagate openbsm/etc/* into /etc on your system;
64this is not done automatically so as to avoid disrupting the current
65configuration.  Currently, the locations of these files is not configurable.
66
67  Credits
68
69The following organizations and individuals have contributed substantially to
70the development of OpenBSM:
71
72    Apple Computer, Inc.
73    McAfee Research, McAfee, Inc.
74    SPARTA, Inc.
75    Robert Watson
76    Wayne Salamon
77    Suresh Krishnaswamy
78    Kevin Van Vechten
79    Tom Rhodes
80    Wojciech Koszek
81    Chunyang Yuan
82    Poul-Henning Kamp
83    Christian Brueffer
84    Olivier Houchard
85    Christian Peron
86    Martin Fong
87    Pawel Worach
88    Martin Englund
89    Ruslan Ermilov
90    Martin Voros
91    Diego Giagio
92    Alex Samorukov
93
94In addition, Coverity, Inc.'s Prevent(tm) static analysis tool and Gimpel
95Software's FlexeLint tool were used to identify a number of bugs in the
96OpenBSM implementation.
97
98  Contributions
99
100The TrustedBSD Project would appreciate the contribution of bug fixes,
101enhancements, etc, under identically or substantially similar licenses to
102those present on the remainder of the OpenBSM source code.
103
104  Location
105
106Information on OpenBSM may be found on the OpenBSM home page:
107
108    http://www.OpenBSM.org/
109
110Information on TrustedBSD may be found on the TrustedBSD home page:
111
112    http://www.TrustedBSD.org/
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