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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2012 14:46:41 +0000
From:      "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Distributed audit daemon committed (was: svn commit: r243752 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/mail etc/mtree etc/rc.d share/man/man4 usr.sbin usr.sbin/auditdistd (fwd))
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References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212011512410.34256@fledge.watson.org> <50BB63DB.8000301@a1poweruser.com>

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On 2 Dec 2012, at 14:21, Fbsd8 wrote:

>> 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.
>=20
> Is auditdistd going to be included in the base system as of =
10.0-RELEASE
> or be a port that runs on 10.0-RELEASE and newer?

The plan is that auditdistd will be included in the base operating =
system for FreeBSD 10.0, and it is now integrated into the development =
branch that will naturally lead to that outcome; I would like to get it =
merged to stable/9 for inclusion in a future 9.2 release as well, but =
that will require a bit more work. I'll plan to let it shake out in =
10-CURRENT for at least a few weeks, and let more users report on their =
experiences, before looking at a merge to 9.x.

Robert




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