OpenBSM 1.0 Introduction OpenBSM provides an open source implementation of Sun's BSM Audit API. Originally created under contract to Apple Computer by McAfee Research, this implementation is now maintained by volunteers and the generous contribution of several organizations. Coupled with a kernel audit implementation, OpenBSM can be used to maintain system audit streams, and is a foundation for an Audit-enabled system. Contents OpenBSM consists of several directories: bin/ Audit-related command line tools bsm/ System include files for BSM etc/ Sample /etc/security configuration files libbsm/ Implementation of BSM library interfaces and man pages man/ System call and configuration file man pages OpenBSM currently builds on FreeBSD and Darwin. With Makefile adjustment and minor tweaks, it should build without problems on a broad range of POSIX-like systems. Building OpenBSM is currently built using autoconf and automake, which should allow for building on a range of operating systems, including FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Linux. Depending on the availability of audit facilities in the underlying operating system, some components that depend on kernel audit support are built conditionally. Typically, build will be performed using ./configure make To install, use: make install You may wish to specify that the OpenBSM components not be installed in the base system, rather in a specific directory. This may be done using the --prefix argument to configure. If installing to a specific directory, remember to update your library path so that running tools from that directory the correct libbsm is used: ./configure --prefix=/home/rwatson/openbsm make make install LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/rwatson/openbsm/libbsm ; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH You will need to manually propagate openbsm/etc/* into /etc on your system; this is not done automatically so as to avoid disrupting the current configuration. Currently, the locations of these files is not configurable. Credits The following organizations and individuals have contributed substantially to the development of OpenBSM: Apple Computer, Inc. McAfee Research, McAfee, Inc. SPARTA, Inc. Robert Watson Wayne Salamon Suresh Krishnaswamy Kevin Van Vechten Tom Rhodes Wojciech Koszek Chunyang Yuan Poul-Henning Kamp Christian Brueffer Olivier Houchard Christian Peron Martin Fong In addition, Coverity, Inc.'s Prevent(tm) static analysis tool and Gimpel Software's FlexeLint tool were used to identify a number of bugs in the OpenBSM implementation. Contributions The TrustedBSD Project would appreciate the contribution of bug fixes, enhancements, etc, under identically or substantially similar licenses to those present on the remainder of the OpenBSM source code. Location Information on OpenBSM may be found on the OpenBSM home page: http://www.OpenBSM.org/ Information on TrustedBSD may be found on the TrustedBSD home page: http://www.TrustedBSD.org/ $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/README#17 $