## Name

vfs_full_audit — record Samba VFS operations in the system log

## Synopsis

`vfs objects = full_audit`

## DESCRIPTION

This VFS module is part of the samba(7) suite.

The `vfs_full_audit` VFS module records selected client operations to the system log using syslog(3).

`vfs_full_audit` is able to record the complete set of Samba VFS operations:

chdir
chflags
chmod
chmod_acl
chown
close
closedir
connect
disconnect
disk_free
fchmod
fchmod_acl
fchown
fget_nt_acl
fgetxattr
flistxattr
fremovexattr
fset_nt_acl
fsetxattr
fstat
fsync
ftruncate
get_nt_acl
get_quota
get_shadow_copy_data
getlock
getwd
getxattr
kernel_flock
link
linux_setlease
listxattr
lock
lseek
lstat
mkdir
mknod
open
opendir
pread
pwrite
read
readdir
readlink
realpath
removexattr
rename
rewinddir
rmdir
seekdir
sendfile
set_nt_acl
set_quota
setxattr
stat
statvfs
symlink
sys_acl_delete_def_file
sys_acl_get_fd
sys_acl_get_file
sys_acl_set_fd
sys_acl_set_file
telldir
unlink
utime
write

In addition to these operations, `vfs_full_audit` recognizes the special operation names "all" and "none ", which refer to all the VFS operations and none of the VFS operations respectively.

`vfs_full_audit` records operations in fixed format consisting of fields separated by '|' characters. The format is:

    		smbd_audit: PREFIX|OPERATION|RESULT|FILE

The record fields are:

- `PREFIX` - the result of the full_audit:prefix string after variable substitutions

- `OPERATION` - the name of the VFS operation

- `RESULT` - whether the operation succeeded or failed

- `FILE` - the name of the file or directory the operation was performed on

This module is stackable.

## OPTIONS

vfs_full_audit:prefix = STRING

  Prepend audit messages with STRING. STRING is processed for standard substitution variables listed in smb.conf(5). The default prefix is "%u|%I".

vfs_full_audit:success = LIST

  LIST is a list of VFS operations that should be recorded if they succeed. Operations are specified using the names listed above. Operations can be unset by prefixing the names with "!".

vfs_full_audit:failure = LIST

  LIST is a list of VFS operations that should be recorded if they failed. Operations are specified using the names listed above. Operations can be unset by prefixing the names with "!".

full_audit:facility = FACILITY

  Log messages to the named syslog(3) facility.

full_audit:priority = PRIORITY

  Log messages with the named syslog(3) priority.

## EXAMPLES

Log file and directory open operations on the [records] share using the LOCAL7 facility and ALERT priority, including the username and IP address. Logging excludes the open VFS function on failures:

            [records]
    	path = /data/records
    	vfs objects = full_audit
    	full_audit:prefix = %u|%I
    	full_audit:success = open opendir
    	full_audit:failure = all !open
    	full_audit:facility = LOCAL7
    	full_audit:priority = ALERT

## VERSION

This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite.

## AUTHOR

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.