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AUDIT_EVENT(5)                             BSD File Formats Manual                            AUDIT_EVENT(5)

NAME
     audit_event -- audit event descriptions

DESCRIPTION
     The audit_event file contains descriptions of the auditable events on the system.  Each line maps an
     audit event number to a name, a description, and a class.  Entries are of the form:

           eventnum:eventname:description:eventclass

     Each eventclass should have a corresponding entry in the audit_class(5) file.

     Example entries in this file are:

           0:AUE_NULL:indir system call:no
           1:AUE_EXIT:exit(2):pc
           2:AUE_FORK:fork(2):pc
           3:AUE_OPEN:open(2):fa

FILES
     /etc/security/audit_event

SEE ALSO
     audit(4), audit_class(5), audit_control(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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