Re: MySQL Audit Function

Antony T Curtis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oh cool! There is less missing now.


On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Paul DuBois wrote:

> 
> On Feb 5, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
> 
>> MySQL 5.5 has some audit functionality.
>> 
>> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/writing-audit-plugins.html
>> 
>> However, It's not "all there". If you look at the mysql bk-commits email list at around Jan-April 2008, there are additional patches which hook into many parts of MySQL, including all the phases of connection and authentication.
> 
> So if you compare the URL above to the corresponding one in the 5.6 manual:
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/writing-audit-plugins.html
> 
> You'll see that the example audit plugin can track more kinds of events. Compare the two versions beginning with this paragraph:
> 
> "The general descriptor also refers to simple_status, a structure that exposes several status variables to the SHOW STATUS statement:"
> 
>> Regards,
>> Antony.
>> 
>> On 5 Feb, 2012, at 1:28 am, Aruna Karunarathna wrote:
>> 
>>> I think that MySQL database is suffers from lacking a proper Audit
>>> Functionality.
>>> I would like to contribute in a way to enable a better audit trail.
>>> 
>>> Are there any suggestions or a particular group I should added to?
> 
> -- 
> Paul DuBois
> Oracle Corporation / MySQL Documentation Team
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> www.mysql.com
> 


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