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Apple security updates
This document outlines security updates for Apple products. For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.Important: This document describes updates and releases for January 15, 2008 and later, such as Security Update 2008-001. For information about earlier security updates, see these documents: Apple security updates (25-Jan-2005 to 21-Dec-2007) Apple security updates (03-Oct-2003 to 11-Jan-2005) Apple security updates (August, 2003 and earlier)Obtaining Mac OS XInformation about obtaining Mac OS X (client) can be found here. Information about obtaining Mac OS X Server can be found here.Software updates for Mac OS X are available via: Software Update preferences Apple DownloadsApple Product Security PGP KeyFor information, see "How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key".

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getauid

GETAUID(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							GETAUID(2)

NAME

     getauid -- retrieve audit user ID

SYNOPSIS

     #include <bsm/audit.h>

     int
     getauid(au_id_t *auid);

DESCRIPTION

     The getauid() system call retrieves the active audit user ID for the current process via the au_id_t pointed to by auid.

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 getauid() function will fail if:

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

SEE ALSO

     audit(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(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 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>.

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