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mod_http_oauth2: Organize HTTP routes with comments Starting to get hard to follow. Usually one would start tracing the steps at the HTTP authorize route. Vaguely sorted alphabetically by path and point in the flow. (/register comes before /authorize tho)
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2 summary: Audit Logging
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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.