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 cur-
rent process from the au_id_t pointed to by auid. The value of AU_DEFAU-
DITID (-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 ker-
nel 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 divi-
sion 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>.
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