[Samba] Export authentication & authorisation logs to Windows Event Viewer

Andrew Bartlett
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 08:02:09 -0000

On Sat, 2018-01-06 at 12:21 +0530, Anantha Raghava via samba
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can we export the samba audit logs (Authentication & Authorisation
Logs)
> to Windows Event Viewer?
>
> I am trying to export the authentication & authorisation logs to a
> Windows Server to be shown in Windows Event Viewer. I read the link -
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Event_Logging. But couldn't follow
much.
>
> Can someone throw more light on the procedure, if it is possible?

Sadly not at this time.  I actually have a client task pending to look
into this better, but for now if you want to use the modern event
viewer it looks like quite a large protocol built on binary XML.

The older eventlog protocol is still around, and it might be easier to
fill in that database.  Can you clarify if you would be wanting
eventlog or eventlog6 support?  While I don't wish to give false hopes,
it would be really helpful for the 'scoping study' I've been asked
to
do if I knew better what users need here.

Additionally, I understand there are some security appliances etc that
use event log to get audit information from AD for security purposes.
If you or anyone else on the list uses one of these and can tell me a
little about them (names, versions, ideally get me a network trace of
it in action or where I can get a demo) that would also be really
helpful.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba