5 OpenBSM provides an open source implementation of Sun's BSM Audit API.
6 Originally created under contract to Apple Computer by McAfee Research, this
7 implementation is now maintained by volunteers and the generous contribution
8 of several organizations. Coupled with a kernel audit implementation,
9 OpenBSM can be used to maintain system audit streams, and is a foundation for
10 an Audit-enabled system. Portions of OpenBSM, including include files and
11 token-building routines, are reusable in a kernel audit implementation, and
12 may be found in the FreeBSD and Mac OS X kernels.
16 OpenBSM consists of several directories:
18 bin/ Audit-related command line tools
19 bsm/ System include files for BSM
20 compat/ Compatibility code to build on various OS's
21 etc/ Sample /etc/security configuration files
22 libbsm/ Implementation of BSM library interfaces and man pages
23 man/ System call and configuration file man pages
24 modules/ Directory for auditfilterd module source
25 test/ Test token sets and geneneration program
26 tools/ Tool directory, including audump to dump databases
28 The following programs are included with OpenBSM:
30 audit Command line audit control tool
31 auditd Audit management daemon
32 auditfilterd Experimental event monitoring framework
33 auditreduce Audit trail reduction tool
34 audump Debugging tool to parse and print audit databases
35 praudit Tool to print audit trails
39 OpenBSM is currently built using autoconf and automake, which should allow
40 for building on a range of operating systems, including FreeBSD, Mac OS X,
41 and Linux. Depending on the availability of audit facilities in the
42 underlying operating system, some components that depend on kernel audit
43 support are built conditionally. Typically, build will be performed using:
52 You may wish to specify that the OpenBSM components not be installed in the
53 base system, rather in a specific directory. This may be done using the
54 --prefix argument to configure. If installing to a specific directory,
55 remember to update your library path so that running tools from that
56 directory the correct libbsm is used:
58 ./configure --prefix=/home/rwatson/openbsm
61 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/rwatson/openbsm/libbsm ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
63 You will need to manually propagate openbsm/etc/* into /etc on your system;
64 this is not done automatically so as to avoid disrupting the current
65 configuration. Currently, the locations of these files is not configurable.
69 The following organizations and individuals have contributed substantially to
70 the development of OpenBSM:
73 McAfee Research, McAfee, Inc.
94 In addition, Coverity, Inc.'s Prevent(tm) static analysis tool and Gimpel
95 Software's FlexeLint tool were used to identify a number of bugs in the
96 OpenBSM implementation.
100 The TrustedBSD Project would appreciate the contribution of bug fixes,
101 enhancements, etc, under identically or substantially similar licenses to
102 those present on the remainder of the OpenBSM source code.
106 Information on OpenBSM may be found on the OpenBSM home page:
108 http://www.OpenBSM.org/
110 Information on TrustedBSD may be found on the TrustedBSD home page:
112 http://www.TrustedBSD.org/
114 $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/README#24 $