Re: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752

On 12/01/12 15:15, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> Dear all:
> 
> I've now committed the build glue required to install the recently
> merged Audit Distribution Daemon (auditdistd) contributed by the Pawel
> Dawidek, and sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.  This allows
> individual hosts generating audit trails to submit trails to a central
> audit server for review and safe keeping.  Part of the goal is to ensure
> that a host submitting trail data can't later modify the trails.  Pawel
> uses a variety of useful security- and resilience-related features such
> as TLS, Capsicum, etc, in auditdistd.  As the recent security incident
> in the FreeBSD.org cluster illustrated, having reliable and detailed
> audit trails makes a big difference in forensic work, and hopefully this
> will allow the FreeBSD Project (and our users) to do that better in the
> future.
> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge

Wonderful! Personally I think this is a very worthy addition to the
project and I would like to congratulate and thank everyone involved in
this work.
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