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From: Michael Mather <michael.mather@teksavvy.com>
Subject: Re: Advice on enriching logs with user and group names before
	moving them to a central log repository
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:57:11 -0400
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On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 19:51 +1000, Burn Alting wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I will go ahead with my audispd child program that enriches logs and
> use rsyslog to get them to a central repository.
> I also plan to concatenate all messages belonging to the same event
> (ie time:event_id) and send this as one syslog message to the central
> repository.
> I'd rather do this on the client systems rather than at my central
> repository, in order to gain benefits from effectively, distributed
> processing.
> 

This sounds very useful, Burn.

In an EXECVE message there is something like:

args=2 a0="ls" a1="/etc"

It would be nice if this could be changed to something like

command="ls /etc".

One problem is that the shell script interprets wild cards before auditd
sees the command, and that can lead to long strings. So maybe that
situation could become something like:

something="ls /etc/aaa /etc/bbb /etc/ccc ..."

In most cases a human reader would recognise what is happening.

Also, sometimes the parameters are in hex instead of strings. For
example, when the parameter contains quotes.

Michael
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