audswitch(2) System Calls Manual audswitch(2)
NAME
audswitch() - suspend or resume auditing on the current process
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
suspends or resumes auditing within the current process. This call is restricted to users with the privilege.
One of the following flags must be used for aflag:
Suspend auditing on the current process.
Resume auditing on the current process.
can be used in processes with the privilege to temporarily suspend auditing during intervals where auditing is to be handled by the process
itself. Auditing is suspended by a call to with the parameter and resumed later by a call to with the parameter.
An call to resume auditing serves only to reverse the action of a previous call to suspend auditing. A call to to resume auditing when
auditing is not suspended has no effect.
affects only the current process. For example, cannot suspend auditing for processes from the current process. (Use (see setaudproc(2))
to enable or disable auditing for a process and its children).
Security Restrictions
Some or all of the actions associated with this system call require the privilege. Processes owned by the superuser have this privilege.
Processes owned by other users may have this privilege, depending on system configuration. See privileges(5) for more information about
privileged access on systems that support fine-grained privileges.
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, returns If an error occurs, is returned and the global variable is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
fails if one of the following is true:
The user does not possess the
privilege.
The input parameter is neither
nor
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
audevent(1M), audusr(1M), setaudproc(2), audit(5), privileges(5).
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