5 OpenBSM provides an open source implementation of Sun's BSM Audit API.
6 Originally created under contract to Apple Computer by McAfee Research,
7 this implementation is now maintained by volunteers and the generous
8 contribution of several organizations. Coupled with a kernel audit
9 implementation, OpenBSM can be used to maintain system audit streams, and
10 is a foundation for an Audit-enabled system.
14 OpenBSM consists of several directories:
16 bin/ Audit-related command line tools
17 bsm/ System include files for BSM
18 etc/ Sample /etc/security configuration files
19 libbsm/ Implementation of BSM library interfaces and man pages
20 man/ System call and configuration file man pages
22 OpenBSM currently builds on FreeBSD and Darwin. With Makefile adjustment
23 and minor tweaks, it should build without problems on a broad range of
28 OpenBSM is currently built using autoconf and automake, which should allow
29 for building on a range of operating systems, including FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
30 and Linux. Depending on the availability of audit facilities in the
31 underlying operating system, some components that depend on kernel audit
32 support are built conditionally. Typically, build will be performed using
41 You may wish to specify that the OpenBSM components not be installed in the
42 base system, rather in a specific directory. This may be done using the
43 --prefix argument to configure. If installing to a specific directory,
44 remember to update your library path so that running tools from that
45 directory the correct libbsm is used:
47 ./configure --prefix=/home/rwatson/openbsm
50 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/rwatson/openbsm/libbsm ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
52 You will need to manually propagate openbsm/etc/* into /etc on your system;
53 this is not done automatically so as to avoid disrupting the current
54 configuration. Currently, the locations of these files is not
59 The following organizations and individuals have contributed substantially
60 to the development of OpenBSM:
63 McAfee Research, McAfee, Inc.
80 In addition, Coverity, Inc.'s Prevent(tm) static analysis tool and Gimpel
81 Software's FlexeLint tool were used to identify a number of bugs in the
82 OpenBSM implementation.
86 The TrustedBSD Project would appreciate the contribution of bug fixes,
87 enhancements, etc, under identically or substantially similar licenses to
88 those present on the remainder of the OpenBSM source code.
92 Information on OpenBSM may be found on the OpenBSM home page:
94 http://www.OpenBSM.org/
96 Information on TrustedBSD may be found on the TrustedBSD home page:
98 http://www.TrustedBSD.org/
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