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FileSystemAuditRule Class

Represents an abstraction of an access control entry (ACE) that defines an audit rule for a file or directory. This class cannot be inherited.

System.Object
  System.Security.AccessControl.AuthorizationRule
    System.Security.AccessControl.AuditRule
      System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAuditRule

Namespace:  System.Security.AccessControl
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
public sealed class FileSystemAuditRule : AuditRule

The FileSystemAuditRule type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method FileSystemAuditRule(IdentityReference, FileSystemRights, AuditFlags) Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemAuditRule class using a reference to a user account, a value that specifies the type of operation associated with the audit rule, and a value that specifies when to perform auditing.
Public method FileSystemAuditRule(String, FileSystemRights, AuditFlags) Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemAuditRule class using a user account name, a value that specifies the type of operation associated with the audit rule, and a value that specifies when to perform auditing.
Public method FileSystemAuditRule(IdentityReference, FileSystemRights, InheritanceFlags, PropagationFlags, AuditFlags) Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemAuditRule class using the name of a reference to a user account, a value that specifies the type of operation associated with the audit rule, a value that determines how rights are inherited, a value that determines how rights are propagated, and a value that specifies when to perform auditing.
Public method FileSystemAuditRule(String, FileSystemRights, InheritanceFlags, PropagationFlags, AuditFlags) Initializes a new instance of the FileSystemAuditRule class using the name of a user account, a value that specifies the type of operation associated with the audit rule, a value that determines how rights are inherited, a value that determines how rights are propagated, and a value that specifies when to perform auditing.
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  Name Description
Protected property AccessMask Gets the access mask for this rule. (Inherited from AuthorizationRule.)
Public property AuditFlags Gets the audit flags for this audit rule. (Inherited from AuditRule.)
Public property FileSystemRights Gets the FileSystemRights flags associated with the current FileSystemAuditRule object.
Public property IdentityReference Gets the IdentityReference to which this rule applies. (Inherited from AuthorizationRule.)
Public property InheritanceFlags Gets the value of flags that determine how this rule is inherited by child objects. (Inherited from AuthorizationRule.)
Public property IsInherited Gets a value indicating whether this rule is explicitly set or is inherited from a parent container object. (Inherited from AuthorizationRule.)
Public property PropagationFlags Gets the value of the propagation flags, which determine how inheritance of this rule is propagated to child objects. This property is significant only when the value of the InheritanceFlags enumeration is not None. (Inherited from AuthorizationRule.)
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  Name Description
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
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The FileSystemAuditRule class represents an abstraction of an underlying access control entry (ACE) that specifies a user account, the type of access to provide (read, write, and so on), and whether to perform auditing. This class can also specify how audit rules are inherited from and propagated to objects.

To permit file and directory auditing on Microsoft Windows NT or later, you must enable Audit Access Security policy on your machine. By default, this policy is set to No Auditing.

To enable the Audit Access Security policy, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Local Security Settings Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, located in the Administrative Tools folder.

  2. Expand the Local Policies folder and left-click the Audit Policy folder.

  3. Double-click the Audit object access entry on the right pane of the MMC snap-in, or right-click and select the properties option to display the Audit object access Properties dialog.

  4. Select the Success or Failure boxes to log successes or failures.

Note that an audit rule for a user account requires a corresponding access rule for the same user account.

Use the FileSystemAuditRule class to create a new audit rule. You can persist this rule using the FileSecurity or DirectorySecurity class.

The following code example uses the FileSystemAuditRule class to add and then remove an audit rule from a file. You must supply a valid user or group account to run this example.


using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.AccessControl;

namespace FileSystemExample
{
    class FileExample
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            try
            {
                string FileName = "test.xml";

                Console.WriteLine("Adding access control entry for " + FileName);

                // Add the access control entry to the file.
                AddFileAuditRule(FileName, @"MYDOMAIN\MyAccount", FileSystemRights.ReadData, AuditFlags.Failure);

                Console.WriteLine("Removing access control entry from " + FileName);

                // Remove the access control entry from the file.
                RemoveFileAuditRule(FileName, @"MYDOMAIN\MyAccount", FileSystemRights.ReadData, AuditFlags.Failure);

                Console.WriteLine("Done.");
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e);
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        // Adds an ACL entry on the specified file for the specified account.
        public static void AddFileAuditRule(string FileName, string Account, FileSystemRights Rights, AuditFlags AuditRule)
        {


            // Get a FileSecurity object that represents the 
            // current security settings.
            FileSecurity fSecurity = File.GetAccessControl(FileName);

            // Add the FileSystemAuditRule to the security settings. 
            fSecurity.AddAuditRule(new FileSystemAuditRule(Account,
                                                            Rights,
                                                            AuditRule));

            // Set the new access settings.
            File.SetAccessControl(FileName, fSecurity);

        }

        // Removes an ACL entry on the specified file for the specified account.
        public static void RemoveFileAuditRule(string FileName, string Account, FileSystemRights Rights, AuditFlags AuditRule)
        {

            // Get a FileSecurity object that represents the 
            // current security settings.
            FileSecurity fSecurity = File.GetAccessControl(FileName);

            // Add the FileSystemAuditRule to the security settings. 
            fSecurity.RemoveAuditRule(new FileSystemAuditRule(Account,
                                                            Rights,
                                                            AuditRule));

            // Set the new access settings.
            File.SetAccessControl(FileName, fSecurity);

        }
    }
}


.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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