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Re: kernel event auditing for NetBSD?



On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:03:31PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Antti Kantee wrote:
> 
> > On Mon Nov 15 2010 at 14:48:37 -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > It has a kernel side (of course) that would be a slow process to add all 
> > > the places to report.
> > 
> > Can't you (ab)use kauth for that?
> 
> Yes, I should have mentioned that. That might be a way to get a great 
> start. (From a quick look, I am not sure which, if any, audit class is 
> for authorization.)

One very good way to do this would be to write a DTrace provider for
kauth.

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