Auditing printing

[warron.french]

Thanks for the feedback Steve.

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Warron French


On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 2:29:56 PM EDT warron.french wrote:
> > OK, so that will cover from CLI as well as something in the gui like
> > Firefox?
> >
> > For both printing to a print device as well as to a file?
>
> I haven't looked at this code in a very long time. So, I don't remember
> how
> to enable it to test it. But it should have full coverage to meet export
> requirements for LSPP way back on RHEL 5. The code has been ported all
> these
> years and is supposed to still work.
>
> -Steve
>
> > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 2:05:36 PM EDT warron.french wrote:
> > > > I have a requirement to monitor two (2) things:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Print to file
> > > >
> > > > 2. Print to (printer) device
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What is the best approach for this?
> > >
> > > Cups should be hardwired to audit.
> > >
> > > # ldd /usr/sbin/cupsd | grep audit
> > >
> > >         libaudit.so.1 => /lib64/libaudit.so.1 (0x00007f04f1cfa000)
> > >
> > > It's been a long time since I looked at this.
> > >
> > > -Steve
> > >
> > > > I don't see a syscall that looks
> > > > appropriate - but that doesn't mean there is not one.
> > > >
> > > > Would I simply do an audit on the *lpr* command?  Or is it another
> > >
> > > command?
> > >
> > > > I need the ability to monitor printing to both file and device,
> *FROM*,
> > > > linux shell as well as console or GUI.
> > > >
> > > > Can someone advise me on how to accomplish this please?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > --------------------------
> > > > Warron French
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