How to Install and Uninstall auditd Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "auditd" package

Please follow the steps below to install auditd on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall auditd on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: auditd
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.0-2ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Source: audit
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 729
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), mawk | gawk, libaudit1 (>= 1:3.0), libauparse0 (>= 1:2.8), libc6 (>= 2.32), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9)
Suggests: audispd-plugins
Breaks: audispd-plugins (<< 1:3.0~)
Filename: pool/main/a/audit/auditd_3.0-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 195404
MD5sum: 74ae2449c5131d384278fc4efb27d1e5
SHA1: 8703d4c6325dc9ff9425f4b35ac80bf77ce1698a
SHA256: 850a045bba6413054cdb863c594517f6fee45c98e4cd70c745d9cfc265453c33
SHA512: fdffc9875f335e082fed0985cb214b775d5f6e6bb82ba45a61dd8daf4b4e10e463e424176742e23f355eb0e537aca1515f2c6356134406c2437ce48ab73866ec
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