Process arguments

Ganbold ganbold at micom.mng.net
Mon Oct 30 06:31:18 UTC 2006


Dave Clausen wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm a n00b to the FreeBSD kernel and I'm trying to log all commands 
> run on the command line from within the kernel for security purposes 
> by loading a kernel module which redefines execve().  I've 
> successfully created the KLD and have it working, but am having 
> problems saving the command's arguments.
> Could anyone point me to where in the kernel I should be looking for 
> the arguments sent to the process?  p->p_args gives me the parent 
> process's cmdname only (sh, in this case), and uap->argv is just the 
> relative pathname of uap->fname.  Ideally, I'd like the user, full 
> command line, and cwd logged for each command entered.
>
> Here's an example of what I've been working away on:
>
> int
> new_execve (struct thread *td, struct execve_args *uap)
> {
>       char *user;
>       struct proc *p = td->td_proc;
>
>       user = p->p_pgrp->pg_session->s_login;
>       if (p->p_ucred->cr_ruid == 1001) {
>               printf("%s %d %s\n", user, p->p_pid, uap->fname);
>       }
>       return (execve(td,uap));
> }
>
> Running 'ls -al' with the above, I get the username, pid, and absolute 
> filename printed such as, but can't find the actual arguments:
> dave 6689 /bin/ls

If I'm not mistaken pjd@ has written similar module which is called 
lrexec for RELENG_4 and RELENG_5. See his web site.
Also recently rwatson@ enabled audit support in RELENG_6 and CURRENT, 
though I don't know yet whether it can log arguments.

hth,

Ganbold


>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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