OpenBSM 1.0 alpha 12 released

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 25 02:43:12 PDT 2006


OpenBSM 1.0 alpha 12 is now up the web site, and will be the second release 
after incorporated into the FreeBSD 6-STABLE tree.  It incorporates a number 
of bug fixes and enhancements resulting from use by 6-STABLE users.  The 
download can be found at:

     http://www.TrustedBSD.org/openbsm.html

Change notes from OpenBSM 1.0 alpha 11 below.  I'll be incorporating this drop 
into FreeBSD 7-CURRENT today, and 6-STABLE a few days later for inclusion in 
6.2-BETA2 (skipping alpha 11, since this supercedes it).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

OpenBSM 1.0 alpha 12

- Correct bug in auditreduce which prevented the -c option from working
   correctly when the user specifies to process successful or failed events.
   The problem stemmed from not having access to the return token at the time
   the initial preselection occurred, but now a second preselection process
   occurs while processing the return token.
- getacfilesz(3) API added to read new audit_control(5) filesz setting,
   which auditd(8) now sets the kernel audit trail rotation size to.
- auditreduce(1) now uses stdin if no file names are specified on the command
   line; this was the documented behavior previously, but it was not
   implemented.  Be more specific in auditreduce(1)'s examples section about
   what might be done with the output of auditreduce.
- Add audit_warn(5) closefile event so that administrators can hook
   termination of an audit trail file.  For example, this might be used to
   compress the trail file after it is closed.
- auditreduce(1) now uses regular expressions for pathname matching. Users can
   now supply one or more (comma delimited) regular expressions for searching
   the pathnames. If one of the regular expressions is prefixed with a tilde
   (~), and a path matches, it will be excluded from the search results.



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