Audit object access

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2, Windows Vista

Audit object access

Description

This security setting determines whether to audit the event of a user accessing an object--for example, a file, folder, registry key, printer, and so forth--that has its own system access control list (SACL) specified.

If you define this policy setting, you can specify whether to audit successes, audit failures, or not audit the event type at all. Success audits generate an audit entry when a user successfully accesses an object that has an appropriate SACL specified. Failure audits generate an audit entry when a user unsuccessfully attempts to access an object that has a SACL specified.

To set this value to No auditing, in the Properties dialog box for this policy setting, select the Define these policy settings check box and clear the Success and Failure check boxes.

Note that you can set a SACL on a file system object using the Security tab in that object's Properties dialog box.

Default: No auditing.

Configuring this security setting

You can configure this security setting by opening the appropriate policy and expanding the console tree as such: Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Audit Policy\

For specific instructions about how to configure auditing policy settings, see Define or modify auditing policy settings for an event category.

Object Access Events Description

560

Access was granted to an already existing object.

562

A handle to an object was closed.

563

An attempt was made to open an object with the intent to delete it.

Note

  • This is used by file systems when the FILE_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag is specified in Createfile().

564

A protected object was deleted.

565

Access was granted to an already existing object type.

567

A permission associated with a handle was used.

Note

  • A handle is created with certain granted permissions (Read, Write, and so on). When the handle is used, up to one audit is generated for each of the permissions that was used.

568

An attempt was made to create a hard link to a file that is being audited.

569

The resource manager in Authorization Manager attempted to create a client context.

570

A client attempted to access an object.

Note

  • An event will be generated for every attempted operation on the object.

571

The client context was deleted by the Authorization Manager application.

572

The administrator manager initialized the application.

772

The certificate manager denied a pending certificate request.

773

Certificate Services received a resubmitted certificate request.

774

Certificate Services revoked a certificate.

775

Certificate Services received a request to publish the certificate revocation list (CRL).

776

Certificate Services published the certificate revocation list (CRL).

777

A certificate request extension was made.

778

One or more certificate request attributes changed.

779

Certificate Services received a request to shutdown.

780

Certificate Services backup started.

781

Certificate Services backup completed.

782

Certificate Services restore started.

783

Certificate Services restore completed.

784

Certificate Services started.

785

Certificate Services stopped.

786

The security permissions for Certificate Services changed.

787

Certificate Services retrieved an archived key.

788

Certificate Services imported a certificate into its database.

789

The audit filter for Certificate Services changed.

790

Certificate Services received a certificate request.

791

Certificate Services approved a certificate request and issued a certificate.

792

Certificate Services denied a certificate request.

793

Certificate Services set the status of a certificate request to pending.

794

The certificate manager settings for Certificate Services changed.

795

A configuration entry changed in Certificate Services.

796

A property of Certificate Services changed.

797

Certificate Services archived a key.

798

Certificate Services imported and archived a key.

799

Certificate Services published the CA certificate to Active Directory.

800

One or more rows have been deleted from the certificate database.

801

Role separation enabled.

For more information about security events, see Security Events on the Microsoft Windows Resource Kits Web site.

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