NAME¶
setauid
—
set audit session ID
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<bsm/audit.h>
int
setauid
(
au_id_t
*auid);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
setauid
() system call sets the active
audit session ID for the current process from the
au_id_t pointed to by
auid.
This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.
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.
- [
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. 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⟩.