add extra logging for special events [#921168]

#716992: Paranoia form audit trail (log form submissions) has some ideas for logging all form submissions.

That's a pretty heavy-handed approach. A lighter approach would be to just add watchdog for a few more important actions. So far the one I care about most is "log every grant/removal of a role" but I guess there are others that are important as well.

Comments

Comment #1

gerhard killesreiter commented 23 September 2010 at 22:49

I wouldn't want to use watchdog (in the sense of dblog( for this since it expires too fast and (more importantly) can be truncated from the UI. syslog would be better.

Comment #2

greggles

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commented 23 September 2010 at 22:51

Agreed, though I think that's a per site thing. The module can use watchdog() and let the site admin sort out where it ends up.

We should consider merging in the better parts of http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/contributions/modules/drupalorg/role...

Comment #3

gerhard killesreiter commented 24 September 2010 at 13:55

Well, paranoia is about not trusting the admin, so we should make syslog a requrement. That wouldn't rule out to have dblog enabled for convenience as well.