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How to Audit a Label Under Trusted IRIX/B

If you are using Trusted IRIX/B, your system supports Mandatory Access Control (MAC) labels on all files and processes. This section explains how to check the audit trail of a given security label.

If you are using standard IRIX, your system does not support MAC labels, and attempts to read the audit trail for events relating to such labels will be futile.

Since the number of configurable labels in Trusted IRIX/B is great enough for each project or portion of a project at your site to have its own label, you may sometimes need to audit a specific label to generate a record of activity on that label. Use the following command to generate a log of activity on a label:

sat_reduce -l label satfile

The above command chooses only audit records that pertain to the given label. The following command syntax allows you to select more than one label for your report:

sat_reduce -l label -l label2 satfile

Once you have obtained output from sat_reduce, use the other auditing utilities, such as sat_interpret or sat_summarize, to view it according to your needs.


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