Re: BSM and syslog... why should I consider the first?
From: Robert Escue (roescue_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/08/05
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Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:06:13 -0400 To: Simone Vernacchia <simonevernacchia@yahoo.it>
Simone Vernacchia wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I'm working on a Security program for a large infrastructure.
>I have to deal with Sun Solaris, and I was wondering why I should
>consider logging via BSM and not syslog.
>System admins have a good knowledge of syslog, and I can standardize
>logging in different UNIX OSes easily if I use it.
>Is there some breaking feature which could make me prefer BSM?
>Is there a reason to use syslog and BSM?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>G0k
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Simone,
BSM is auditing for Solaris, not logging. If you wanted your machine(s)
to be C2/EAL4 compliant and wanted to have a trail of what users did on
that machine, you would enable BSM. The detractors are increased CPU
utilization, preferably having a dedicated partition to write the audit
data to (depending on activity level it could be large) and the audit
trail can only be read using Sun's tools (except for Solaris 10 which
has other options).
Hope this helps.
Robert Escue
System Administrator
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