Thoughts on adding sd-journal as a log_format to auditd

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, March 15, 2013 11:22:50 AM Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> >  2) Write an audispd plugin that used the sd-journal API to store
> > 
> > audit events in the journal.
> > 
> >  3) Add sd-journal as a log format to auditd.
> 
> Both of these will run into the problem recently discussed on this mailing
> list: the available methods to parse an audit records into fields are a bit
> imprecise/"lossy" because not all records keep the name=value format as
> expected.

I don't think this is a problem to worry about. A plugin is handed the whole 
event line by line. To push events you don't need to parse. The real issue is 
later...running reports.

I also thought there was some patch presented on this list sometime in the 
last month to allow journald to listen for audit events directly.

-Steve