Configuring roles

NTHREADS – The number of log files that compose an audit trail. The recommended value is the number of processors on a system divided by two.

•Audevent settings – Arguments to the audevent command

–AUDEVENT_ARGS1 describes those events that are audited for both success and failure.

–AUDEVENT_ARGS2 describes those events that are success only.

–AUDEVENT_ARGS3 describes those events that are failure only.

–AUDEVENT_ARGS4 describes those events that are audited for neither success nor failure.

•Audomon settings

AUDOMON_ARGS describes arguments to the audomon daemon.

You can base auditing on HP-UX Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) criteria and the /etc/rbac/aud_filter file. HP-UX RBAC Version B.11.23.02 and later support the use of an audit filter file to identify specific HP-UX RBAC criteria to audit. You can create a filter file named /etc/rbac/aud_filter to identify specific roles, operations, and objects for which to generate audit records. Audit records are generated only if the attributes of a process match all three entries (role, operation, and object) found in /etc/rbac/aud_filter. If a user's role and associated authorization are not found in the file or do not explicitly match, no audit records specific to role-to- authorization are generated.

Authorized users can edit the /etc/rbac/aud_filter file using a text editor and specify the role and authorization to be audited. Each authorization is specified in the form of operation, object pairs. All authorizations associated with a role must be specified in a single entry. You can specify only one authorization per role on each line; however, the wildcard character (*) is supported. The following are the supported entries and format for the /etc/rbac/aud_filter file:

role, operation, object

•role – Any valid role defined in /etc/rbac/roles. If * is specified, all roles can be accessed by the operation.

•operation – A specific operation that can be performed on an object. For example, hpux.printer.add is the operation of adding a printer. Alternatively, hpux.printer.* is the operation of either adding or deleting a printer. If * is specified, all operations can be accessed by the operation.

•object – The object the user can access. If * is specified, all objects can be accessed by the operation.

The following are examples of /etc/rbac/aud_filter entries that specify how to generate audit records for the role of SecurityOfficer with the authorization of (hpux.passwd, /etc/passwd), and for the Administrator role with authorization to perform the hpux.printer.add operation on all objects:

SecurityOfficer, hpux.passwd, /etc/passwd

Administrator, hpux.printer.add, *

Note

When HP-UX SMSE B.11.23.02 is used in conjunction with HP-UX RBAC (version B.11.23.04 or later) on HP-UX 11i v2, you can restrict the use of the userdbset command based on user authorizations.