AUDIT_CLASS(5)

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🎀 AUDIT_CLASS(5) 🎀 — audit event class descriptions, from the File Formats Manual

okay bestie, welcome to the audit_class page 💅 this is the manual page for audit_class, and it's lowkey all about the descriptions of auditable event classes. slay.

🌸 NAME 🌸

audit_class — audit event class descriptions. that's the whole vibe, no cap ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the audit_class file contains descriptions of the auditable event classes on the system. every auditable event is a member of an event class — like, it has its own little squad it belongs to 🫶. each line maps an audit event mask (bitmap) to a class and a description. entries are of the form:

classmask:eventclass:description

example entries in this file are, literally:

0x00000000:no:invalid class
0x00000001:fr:file read
0x00000002:fw:file write
0x00000004:fa:file attribute access
0x00000080:pc:process
0xffffffff:all:all flags set

📁 FILES 📁

  • /etc/security/audit_class — the file path, periodt 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

🕰️ HISTORY 🕰️

so 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. iconic lineage, honestly 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division 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.

mwah 💋 — this page is from Debian, dated January 24, 2004, and it's the AUDIT_CLASS(5) manual page. bye bestie 🫶

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