From: Antony T Curtis Date: April 13 2012 2:52pm Subject: Re: MySQL Audit Function List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/38496 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oh cool! There is less missing now. On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Paul DuBois wrote: >=20 > On Feb 5, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Antony T Curtis wrote: >=20 >> MySQL 5.5 has some audit functionality. >>=20 >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/writing-audit-plugins.html >>=20 >> However, It's not "all there". If you look at the mysql bk-commits = email list at around Jan-April 2008, there are additional patches which = hook into many parts of MySQL, including all the phases of connection = and authentication. >=20 > So if you compare the URL above to the corresponding one in the 5.6 = manual: >=20 > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/writing-audit-plugins.html >=20 > You'll see that the example audit plugin can track more kinds of = events. Compare the two versions beginning with this paragraph: >=20 > "The general descriptor also refers to simple_status, a structure that = exposes several status variables to the SHOW STATUS statement:" >=20 >> Regards, >> Antony. >>=20 >> On 5 Feb, 2012, at 1:28 am, Aruna Karunarathna wrote: >>=20 >>> I think that MySQL database is suffers from lacking a proper Audit >>> Functionality. >>> I would like to contribute in a way to enable a better audit trail. >>>=20 >>> Are there any suggestions or a particular group I should added to? >=20 > --=20 > Paul DuBois > Oracle Corporation / MySQL Documentation Team > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > www.mysql.com >=20