AU_OPEN(3) Library Functions Manual AU_OPEN(3) NAME au_close, au_close_buffer, au_close_token, au_open, au_write -- create and commit audit records LIBRARY Basic Security Module Library (libbsm, -lbsm) SYNOPSIS #include <bsm/libbsm.h> int au_open(void); int au_write(int d, token_t *tok); int au_close(int d, int keep, short event); int au_close_buffer(int d, short event, u_char *buffer, size_t *buflen); int au_close_token(token_t *tok, u_char *buffer, size_t *buflen); DESCRIPTION These interfaces allow applications to allocate audit records, construct a record using a series of tokens, and commit the audit record to the system event log. An extension API is also provided to commit the record to an in-memory buffer rather than the system audit log. The au_open() interface allocates a new audit record descriptor. The au_write() interface adds a token to an allocated audit descriptor. When a token has been successfully added to a record, the caller no longer owns the token memory, and does not need to free it directly via a call to au_free_token(3). The au_close() function is used to commit an audit record to the system au- dit log, or abandon the record. In either cases, all resources associated with the record will be released. The keep argument determines the behav- ior: a value of AU_TO_WRITE causes the record to be committed; a value of AU_TO_NO_WRITE causes it to be abandoned. When the audit record is commit- ted, a BSM header will be inserted before tokens added to the record, using the event identifier passed via event, and a trailer added to the end. Committing a record to the system audit log requires privilege. The au_close_buffer() function writes the resulting record to an in-memory buffer of size *buflen; it will write back the filled buffer length into the same variable. The argument event is the event identifier to use in the record header. The au_close_token() function generates the BSM stream output for a single token, tok, in the passed buffer buffer. The initial buffer size and re- sulting data size are passed via *buflen. The au_close_token() function will free the token before returning. RETURN VALUES The function au_open() returns a non-negative audit record descriptor num- ber on success, or a negative value on failure, along with error informa- tion in errno. The functions au_write(), au_close(), au_close_buffer(), and au_close_to- ken() return 0 on success, or a negative value on failure, along with error information in errno. SEE ALSO audit_submit(3), libbsm(3) HISTORY The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security di- vision 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 Robert Watson, Wayne Salamon, and Suresh Krishnaswamy for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc. The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems. BUGS Currently, au_open() does not reserve kernel resources necessary to commit the record to the trail; on systems supporting au_close(), the call will block until resources are available to commit the record. However, this leads to the possibility of an action being permitted without the record being guaranteed to go to disk. Ideally, au_open() would reserve resources necessary to commit any submitted record, releasing them on au_close(). FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly March 4, 2006 AU_OPEN(3)
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