[Samba] Auditing/logging with latest Samba release

Adam Nielsen adam.nielsen at uq.edu.au
Fri Aug 21 01:01:40 MDT 2009


>> I just upgraded from Samba 3.0 to 3.2 and found that the old smbd_audit
>> module no longer works.  This module logs all file accesses (especially
>> deletes and renames) into a MySQL database (with a web frontend) and is
>> extremely useful for us as sometimes our users accidentally move things
>> around when they're trying to double-click on folder, and by reviewing
>> the audit trail we can track down where the missing item was moved to
>> and put it back.
> 
> Where do you have that module from? I'm not aware Samba
> ships a module logging to mysql.

It's a third party module: http://smbdaudit.sourceforge.net/

Very useful though, if there's nothing in existence already it'd be nice
to get it updated to work with the latest Samba release.

Cheers,
Adam.



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