How to Install and Uninstall auditd Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "auditd" package

Please follow the steps below to install auditd on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                auditd
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "auditd" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall auditd on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                auditd
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the auditd package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: auditd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:2.8.5-3ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Source: audit
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 710
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), mawk | gawk, libaudit1 (>= 1:2.8), libauparse0 (>= 1:2.8), libc6 (>= 2.17)
Suggests: audispd-plugins
Filename: pool/main/a/audit/auditd_2.8.5-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 194304
MD5sum: 5a7b7c0f8c3c18fb4ae93193ecc99355
SHA1: 442906ff56b808f08426aaa437d9875c728c1b6f
SHA256: aab92b9a2fd109e1d94ebd6832734e6a65e561f6dcc1db10cf3b4c729ed9e172
SHA512: 17ccbed9a7b23bea82c7b7a518eff7d08d201167e68ca98d6505a56813e346f67b1db7410c3d1345514883ca971985163a76f66205f3497e8d0ac74b0245d135
Homepage: https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/
Description-en: User space tools for security auditing
The audit package contains the user space utilities for
storing and searching the audit records generated by
the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
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Also contains the audit dispatcher "audisp".
Description-md5: 77aaff86394a1a8da0659fa99413f455