OpenLDAP Quick Tips: Auditing - who modified what at what times?

Hi All,

Here's the 16th tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series (as requested by Bronius Motekaitis):

"You want to audit OpenLDAP for changes: who modified what at what times?":

Apart from normal logging via syslog there are two options for this; file based audit logging or LDAP^[?] based logging (in directory).

For file based see Audit Logging and related man page slapo-auditlog:

The Audit Logging overlay can be used to record all changes on a given
backend database to a specified log file. Changes are logged as stan-
dard LDIF, with an additional comment header giving the timestamp of
the change and the identity of the user making the change.

For in directory logging see Access Logging and related man page slapo-accesslog:

The Access Logging overlay can be used to record all accesses to a
given backend database on another database. This allows all of the
activity on a given database to be reviewed using arbitrary LDAP
queries, instead of just logging to local flat text files.

Thanks,

Gavin.

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