I would like to help
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 11 16:57:44 UTC 2006
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:37:46 +0000 (GMT)
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Diego Giagio wrote:
>
> > On 11/11/06, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> Thanks for your e-mail! Your help would be most welcome. There is quite a
> >> bit of work to be done; right now we're not maintaining a unified TODO list
> >> for the FreeBSD audit implementation, rather, there are a few lists
> >> scattered in various places. You can find a short TODO list in the OpenBSM
> >> distribution (some of the items in the most recent release have now been
> >> done, FYI, so check first). The distributed audit daemon is one of the
> >> more interesting outstanding areas to work in, but there are others that
> >> probably ought to go into a TODO list somewhere. In my recent presentation
> >> at the FreeBSD developer summit, I identified the following areas in which
> >> interesting new work can and should be done:
> >>
> >> -Finish syscall assignments, especially for ABIs
> >>
> >> - Flesh out argument auditing
> >> - Audit + NSS
> >> - Userland sweep
> >> - Ports + packages
> >> - Language bindings
> >> - Enhance audit pipe preselection
> >> - Multiple audit pipelines
> >>
> >> - IDS/monitoring tools - Distributed audit
> > - New parsing API
> >
> > Let the work begin! I'll be sending specific e-mails to the list to collect
> > information and begin contributing. Thanks.
>
> Heh. I actually intended to postpone that e-mail and flesh out each of the
> ideas some before sending. Sorry about that! I'll try again here rather than
> sending you on an excessive wild goose chase:
[SNIP]: wonderfully authored TODO list by Robert.
At one point, in www/, I placed a todo list. What ever became
of that? I know we never used it and if memory serves me
right we were waiting on a repo-copy? Is there anything keeping
us from making use of that?
Thanks,
--
Tom Rhodes
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