Secure logging system with self-protecting function
Minsu Kim, Bong-Nam No · The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society · 1999
The audit logging system is to write the details of systems use and access on networks. These details are used for trailing the route, when illegal access or using system resource is occurred on networks. The logging system therefore, might be the first target of intruder. We developed the logging system which writes the information of logging and command execution on UNIX system. And we prepared the self-protecting functions of blocking intruder's attack on the logging system. They are protecting the logging process and the log file. To protect the logging process, we made it keep changing the process ID to avoid the intruder's attack. To protect the log file, we use hard link and mandatory file locking, so it can make it impossible to delete or change log file.