How do I get complete list of audit event types

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Apr 8 20:41:02 UTC 2014


On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:53:40 AM Satish Chandra Kilaru wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I want to understand the logs in /var/log/audit/audit.log. Where can I get
> complete list of audit event types 

ausearch -m help 2>&1 | tr ' ' '\n' | egrep '^[A-Z]' | egrep -v 'ALL|Valid' | sort

> and what they mean?

Each event type has some comment in the header files /usr/include/libaudit.h
and /usr/include/linux/audit.h. There is also some documentation here:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Security_Guide/sec-Understanding_Audit_Log_Files.html

And I want to think some other distros have docs as well.

-Steve




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