audit_class

- audit class definitions

Synopsis

/etc/security/audit_class

Description

/etc/security/audit_class is an administrator configurable system file that stores class definitions used in the audit system. Audit events in audit_event(4) are mapped to one or more of the defined audit classes. audit_event can be updated in conjunction with changes to audit_class. See auditconfig(1M) and user_attr(4) for information about changing the preselection of audit classes in the audit system.

The fields for each class entry are separated by colons. Each class entry is a bitmap and is separated from each other by a NEWLINE.

Each entry in the audit_class file has the form:

mask:name:description

The fields are defined as follows:

mask

class mask

name

class name

description

class description

Each class is represented as a bit in the 64 bit class mask. There are 64 different classes available. Meta-classes can also be defined. Meta-classes are supersets composed of multiple base classes, and have more than 1 bit in smask. See EXAMPLES.

Two special meta-classes are pre-defined: all and no.

all

Represents a conjunction of all allowed classes, and is provided as a shorthand method of specifying all classes.

no

Is the invalid class, and any event mapped solely to this class are not audited. Turning auditing on to the all meta-class does not cause events mapped solely to the no class to be written to the audit trail. This class is also used to map obsolete events which are no longer generated. Obsolete events are retained to process old audit trails files.

The mask positions 0xff00000000000000 are reserved for local site use.

Examples

Example 1 Using an audit_class File

The following is an example of an audit_class file:

0x0000000000000000:no:invalid class
0x0000000000000001:fr:file read
0x0000000000000002:fw:file write
0x0000000000000004:fa:file attribute access
0x0000000000000008:fm:file attribute modify
0x0000000000000010:fc:file create
0x0000000000000020:fd:file delete
0x0000000000000040:cl:file close
0x0000000000000080:ft:file transfer
0x0000000000000100:nt:network
0x0000000000000200:ip:ipc
0x0000000000000400:na:non-attribute
0x0000000000001000:lo:login or logout
0x0000000000004000:ap:application
0x00000000000f0000:ad:old administrative (meta-class)
0x0000000000070000:am:administrative (meta-class)
0x0000000000010000:ss:change system state
0x0000000000020000:as:system-wide administration
0x0000000000040000:ua:user administration
0x0000000000080000:aa:audit utilization
0x0000000000300000:pc:process (meta-class)
0x0000000000100000:ps:process start/stop
0x0000000000200000:pm:process modify
0x0000000020000000:io:ioctl
0x0000000040000000:ex:exec
0x0000000080000000:ot:other
0xffffffffffffffff:all:all classes (meta-class)

Files

/etc/security/audit_class

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

The file format stability is Committed. The file content is Uncommitted.

See Also

auditconfig(1M), audit_event(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)

Part VII, Auditing in Oracle Solaris, in Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Security Services

Notes

Redefining the no class to have a non-zero value can have undesirable side effects.