annotate mod_audit/README.md @ 5202:b81fd0d22c66

mod_http_oauth2: Calculate client secret expiry in registration response Not actually the client_secret that expires, but the client_id JWT. Returning '0' indicating no expiry was incorrect unless JWT expiry is turned off, which we check for now.
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2 summary: Audit Logging
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3 rockspec: {}
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6 This module provides infrastructure for audit logging inside Prosody.
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8 ## What is audit logging?
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10 Audit logs will contain security sensitive events, both for server-wide
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11 incidents as well as user-specific.
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13 This module, however, only provides the infrastructure for audit logging. It
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14 does not, by itself, generate such logs. For that, other modules, such as
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15 `mod_audit_auth` or `mod_audit_register` need to be loaded.
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17 ## A note on privacy
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19 Audit logging is intended to ensure the security of a system. As such, its
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20 contents are often at the same time highly sensitive (containing user names
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21 and IP addresses, for instance) and allowed to be stored under common privacy
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22 regulations.
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24 Before using these modules, you may want to ensure that you are legally
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25 allowed to store the data for the amount of time these modules will store it.
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26 Note that it is currently not possible to store different event types with
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27 different expiration times.