NAME
setaudit_addr
,
setaudit(NOW DEPRECATED)
—
set audit session state
SYNOPSIS
#include
<bsm/audit.h>
#include
<bsm/audit_session.h>
int
setaudit_addr
(auditinfo_addr_t
*auditinfo_addr, u_int
length);
SYNOPSIS (NOW DEPRECATED)
<bsm/audit.h>
int
setaudit
(auditinfo_t
*auditinfo)
DESCRIPTION
The
setaudit_addr
()
system call uses the auditinfo_addr_t data structure
for the auditinfo_addr argument which supports
Terminal IDs with large addresses such as those used in IP version 6. It is
defined as follows:
The ai_auid variable contains the audit identifier which is recorded in the audit log for each event the process caused. The value of AU_DEFAUDITID (-1) should not be used. The exception is if the value of audit identifier is known at the start of the session but will be determined and set later. Until ai_auid is set to something other than AU_DEFAUDITID any audit events generated by the system with be filtered by the non-attributed audit mask.
The au_mask_t data structure defines the bit mask for auditing successful and failed events out of the predefined list of event classes. It is defined as follows:
The au_tid_addr_t data structure includes a larger address storage field and an additional field with the type of address stored:
The ai_asid variable contains the audit session ID which is recorded with every event caused by the process. It can be any value in the range 1 to PID_MAX (99999). If the value of AU_ASSIGN_ASID is used for ai_asid a unique session ID will be generated by the kernel. The audit session ID will be returned in the ai_asid field on success.
The ai_flags field is opaque to the kernel and can be used to store flags associated with the audit session. Please see the ⟨bsm/audit_session.h⟩ header file for more information and flag definitions for this platform.
The setaudit_addr system call require an appropriate privilege to complete.
This system call should only be called once at the start of a new session and not again during the same session to update the session information. There are some exceptions, however. The ai_auid field may be updated later if initially set to the value of AU_DEFAUDITID (-1). Likewise, the ai_termid fields may be updated later if the at_type field in au_tid_addr is set to AU_IPv4 and the other ai_tid_addr fields are all set to zero. Creating a new session is done by setting the ai_asid field to an unique session value or AU_ASSIGN_ASID. These system calls will fail when attempting to change the ai_auid or ai_termid fields once set to something other than the default values. The ai_flags field may be updated only according to local access control policy but this is usually accomplished with auditon(2) using the A_SETSFLAGS command. The audit preselection masks may be changed at any time but are usually updated with auditon(2)
The
setaudit
()
system call (NOW DEPRECATED) sets the active audit session state for the
current process via the auditinfo_t pointed to by
auditinfo. The setaudit_addr
()
system call sets extended state via auditinfo_addr and
length.
The auditinfo_t data structure (NOW DEPRECATED) is defined as follows:
The au_termid_t data structure (NOW DEPRECATED) defines the Terminal ID recorded with every event caused by the process. It is defined as follows:
RETURN VALUES
The setaudit_addr
() function returns the
value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and
the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
- [
EFAULT
] - A failure occurred while data transferred to or from the kernel failed.
- [
EINVAL
] - Illegal argument was passed by a system call.
- [
EPERM
] - The process does not have sufficient permission to complete the operation.
SEE ALSO
audit(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getauid(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.
setaudit_addr
() replaced
setaudit
() in Mac OS X 10.7 to support longer
terminal addresses such as those used by IP version 6.
setaudit
() is now deprecated and
setaudit_addr
() should be used instead.
AUTHORS
This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional 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⟩.