RE: MySQL Audit Function

It may be worth noting that McAfee chose not to use the audit plugin facility, instead picked the daemon plugin point.  Sounds like the audit plugin point is not 'good enuf'.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:17 AM
> To: Antony T Curtis
> Cc: Antony T Curtis; Aruna Karunarathna; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: MySQL Audit Function
> 
> In Antony,
> 
> "less missing", heh. Faint praise! :-)
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Antony T Curtis wrote:
> 
> > 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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