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===Access to Audit Data===
The NSS cryptographic module may use the Unix <code>syslog()</code> function and the audit mechanism provided by the operating system to audit events. (Auditing is not yet implemented on Windows.) Auditing is turned off by default. To turn on the auditing capability, you need to set the environment variable NSS_ENABLE_AUDIT to 1. You also need to configure the operating system's audit mechanism. Access to the audit data is described in the next two subsections.
====Access to syslog Log Files====
====Access to System Audit Log====
To meet the audit requirements of FIPS 140-2 at Security Level 2, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Trusted Solaris, the NSS cryptographic module can be configured to use also uses the audit mechanism provided by the operating system to audit events. The audit data will be are stored in the system audit log. Only the root user can read or modify the system audit log. Auditing is turned off by default. To turn on the auditing capability, you need to set the environment variable NSS_ENABLE_AUDIT to 1. You also need to configure the operating system's audit mechanism.
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the system audit log is in the <code>/var/log/audit</code> directory. This directory and the log files in it have the following permission bits (the following commands were run as the root user; only the root user can run the second command):
'''Configure the Solaris Auditing:'''
To configure the System system audit mechanism on Solaris the following administration tasks need to be completed. Create the audit class 'fp', then create the audit event 'AUE_FIPS_AUDIT ' and add the class 'fp' to the audit_control file.
Edit /etc/security/audit_class
On Trusted Solaris 8, auditing is enabled by default; for non-trusted Solaris run: /etc/security/bsmconv (either as root or a user that has been given the Audit Control RBAC profile in Solaris 8)
and reboot your system.
After the system has rebooted, ensure auditd is running: ps -ecf | grep auditd
Note: On Trusted Solaris 8 you need to assume a role with the tail and praudit commands with the proc_audit_app1 and proc_audit_tcb privileges.
You can also view the existing audit files using auditreduce.
#cd /var/audit
#auditreduce -m 34444 *not_terminated* | praudit -l
