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SETAUID(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							SETAUID(2)

NAME

     setauid -- set audit indentifier

SYNOPSIS

     #include <bsm/audit.h>

     int
     setauid(au_id_t *auid);

DESCRIPTION

     The setauid() system call sets the active audit identifier for the current process from the au_id_t pointed to by auid.  The value of
     AU_DEFAUDITID (-1) should not be used for auid.

     This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.

     Once the audit identifier is set to some other value than AU_DEAUDITID (-1) then it is immutable.	This system call may be used to set the
     audit identifier after initially setting up the audit session with the setaudit(2), or setaudit_addr(2) system call.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS

     The setauid() function will fail if:

     [EFAULT]		A failure occurred while data transferred to the kernel failed.

     [EINVAL]		An invalid value for auid was used.  auid can be any value of type au_id_t except AU_DEFAUDITID.

     [EPERM]		The process does not have sufficient permission to complete the operation.

SEE ALSO

     audit(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), getauid(2), setaudit(2), setaudit_addr(2), libbsm(3)

HISTORY

     The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in
     2004.  It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.

AUTHORS

     This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.  Addi-
     tional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.

     The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.

     This manual page was written by Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> and Stacey Son <sson@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD
								  March 21, 2009							       BSD

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AUDIT(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							  AUDIT(2)

NAME

     audit -- commit BSM audit record to audit log

SYNOPSIS

     #include <bsm/audit.h>

     int
     audit(const char *record, u_int length);

DESCRIPTION

     The audit() system call submits a completed BSM audit record to the system audit log.

     The record argument is a pointer to the specific event to be recorded and length is the size in bytes of the data to be written.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS

     The audit() system call will fail and the data never written if:

     [EFAULT]		The record argument is beyond the allocated address space of the process.

     [EINVAL]		The token ID is invalid or length is larger than MAXAUDITDATA.

     [EPERM]		The process does not have sufficient permission to complete the operation.

SEE ALSO

     auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), getauid(2), setaudit(2), setaudit_addr(2), setauid(2), libbsm(3)

HISTORY

     The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in
     2004.  It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.

AUTHORS

     This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.  Addi-
     tional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.

     The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.

     This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS

     The kernel does not fully validate that the argument passed is syntactically valid BSM.  Submitting invalid audit records may corrupt the
     audit log.

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								  April 19, 2005							       BSD

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