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SETAUID(2)                FreeBSD System Calls Manual               SETAUID(2)

NAME
     setauid -- Set audit session ID

SYNOPSIS
     #include <bsm/audit.h>

     int
     setauid(au_id_t *auid);

DESCRIPTION
     setauid sets the active audit session ID for the current process from the
     au_id_t pointed to by auid.

     This system call requires appropriate privilege to complete.

RETURN VALUES
     setauid returns 0 on success, or returns -1 on failure, providing addi-
     tional error information via errno.

SEE ALSO
     audit(2), auditon(2), getauid(2), getaudit(2), setaudit(2),
     getaudit_addr(2), setaudit_addr(2), libbsm(3)

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>.

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.

FreeBSD 6.2                     April 19, 2005                     FreeBSD 6.2

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