February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Using ausearch and aureport
The auditd daemon logs events to the /var/log/audit/audit.log file. Although you could directly read the file with something such as less, you really don't want to. The ausearch and aureport utilities will help you translate the file into a language that makes some sort of sense.