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Re: kernel event auditing for NetBSD?



On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:12:26PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> One very good way to do this would be to write a DTrace provider for
> kauth.
> 

Only if our implementation of DTrace does not merrily drop events.  In
solaris the recommendation is to _never_ use DTrace for security
related monitoring/enforcement because events get dropped when the
buffer fills.

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