Well, yes, plain text logging is fine. Apache and nginx log files are machine-readable. There is a RFC for the meaning of status codes, and LogFileFormat together with the server's documentation provide information about the fields you can expect.

But that's not enough: The typical form-based login will result in a redirection for both success (to whatever the application decides, probably just back to the page which caused a redirect to the login form in the first place) and failure (back to login). Frontend servers also don't log information from POST requests. Therefore, it is up to the application to provide the login name and the result. "Make the log entries machine-readable" doesn't imply a particular format, but rather: document how a log collector software can interpret your entries.

In reply to Re^5: RFC / Audit: Mojo Login Example by haj
in thread RFC / Audit: Mojo Login Example by haukex

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