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-privi-
leged 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 divi-
sion 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.
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