Re: Thoughts on adding sd-journal as a log_format to auditd
On Friday, March 15, 2013 11:22:50 AM Miloslav Trmac wrote:
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> 2) Write an audispd plugin that used the sd-journal API to store
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> audit events in the journal.
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> 3) Add sd-journal as a log format to auditd.
Both of these will run into the problem recently discussed on this mailing
list: the available methods to parse an audit records into fields are a bit
imprecise/"lossy" because not all records keep the name=value format as
expected.
I don't think this is a problem to worry about. A plugin is handed the whole
event line by line. To push events you don't need to parse. The real issue is
later...running reports.
I also thought there was some patch presented on this list sometime in the
last month to allow journald to listen for audit events directly.
-Steve