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.Dd Jan 24, 2004
.Dt AUDIT_CONTROL 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm audit_control
.Nd "contains audit system parameters"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
file contains several audit system parameters.
Each line of this file is of the form:
.Dl parameter:value.
The parameters are:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Pa dir
The directory where audit log files are stored.
There may be more than one of these entries.
Changes to this entry can only be enacted by restarting the
audit system.
See
.Xr audit 1
for a description of how to restart the audit system.
.It Va flags
Specifies which audit event classes are audited for all users.
.Xr audit_user 5
describes how to audit events for individual users.
See the information below for the format of the audit flags.
.It Va naflags
Contains the audit flags that define what classes of events are audited when
an action cannot be attributed to a specific user.
.It Va minfree
The minimum free space required on the file system audit logs are being written to.
When the free space falls below this limit a warning will be issued.
Not currently used as the value of 20 percent is chosen by the kernel.
.El
.Sh AUDIT FLAGS
Audit flags are a comma delimited list of audit classes as defined in the
audit_class file.
See
.Xr audit_class 5
for details.
Event classes may be preceded by a prefix which changes their interpretation.
The following prefixes may be used for each class:
.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact -offset indent
.It +
Record successful events
.It -
Record failed events
.It ^
Record both successful and failed events
.It ^+
Don't record successful events
.It ^-
Don't record failed events
.El
.Sh DEFAULT
The following settings appear in the default
.Nm
file:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
dir:/var/audit
flags:lo,ad,-all,^-fc,^-cl
minfree:20
naflags:lo
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Va flags
parameter above specifies the system-wide mask corresponding to login/logout
events, administrative events, and all failures except for failures in creating
or closing files.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/etc/security/audit_control" -compact
.It Pa /etc/security/audit_control
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr audit 1 ,
.Xr auditd 8 ,
.Xr audit_class 5 ,
.Xr audit_user 5
.Sh 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.
.Pp
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
.Sh 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.