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AUDIT_CLASS(5)                             BSD File Formats Manual                            AUDIT_CLASS(5)

NAME
     audit_class -- audit event class descriptions

DESCRIPTION
     The audit_class file contains descriptions of the auditable event classes on the system.  Each
     auditable event is a member of an event class.  Each line maps an audit event mask (bitmap) to a class
     and a description.  Entries are of the form:

           classmask:eventclass:description

     Example entries in this file are:

           0x00000000:no:invalid class
           0x00000001:fr:file read
           0x00000002:fw:file write
           0x00000004:fa:file attribute access
           0x00000080:pc:process
           0xffffffff:all:all flags set

FILES
     /etc/security/audit_class

SEE ALSO
     audit(4), audit_control(5), audit_event(5), audit_user(5)

HISTORY
     The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division of McAfee Inc., under
     contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004.  It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the
     foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.

AUTHORS
     This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under
     contract to Apple Computer Inc.  Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA
     Inc.

     The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined
     by Sun Microsystems.

BSD                                           January 24, 2004                                           BSD

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