On Thursday 07 June 2007 04:13:42 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions.
>
> _What_ exactly does it audit?
In theory, it should audit the actions performed by the sysadmin. This patch
doesn't cover actions done via X windows interface.
> And why does it only audit sysadmin actions?
This is what's called out for in various security standards such as NISPOM,
DCID 6/3, and PCI. Its all about non-repudiation.
> Is this supposed to be a keylogger?
Sort of. Its supposed to allow the Security Officer the ability to check on
what an admin was doing if they were found to be attempting access to
information outside their duties. Or if something is found to be
misconfigured, they can backtrack and see how it became that way if that was
important.
Some people try to be compliant with these security standards with user space
tools like rootsh, but that is too easy to detect and defeat. And then it
does not put its data into the audit system where its correlated with other
system events.
>What about tty output?
That is not required.
-Steve
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