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AUDITON(2) BSD System Calls Manual AUDITON(2) NAME auditon -- configure the current audit parameters on the system SYNOPSIS #include <bsm/audit.h> int auditon(int cmd, void * data, int length); DESCRIPTION The auditon() function manipulates various audit parameters. The data argument points to the appropriate structure from the header file. Length is the size of the data parameter in bytes. It will typically be the sizeof the the structure. PARAMETERS A_GETPOLICY Get the current audit policy. Data should point to a long. The policy is the bitwise OR'ing of the appro-priate appropriate priate flags from bsm/audit.h. If AUDIT_AHLT is set, the system will kernel panic if it cannot write to the global audit trail. If AUDIT_CNT is not set and the system becomes low on space, audited events will block until the low space condition is remedied. Unaudited events are unaffected. The other policy flags are not implemented. A_SETPOLICY Set the current audit policy. Data should point to a long specifying the desired audit policy, as described in A_GETPOLICY. A_GETKMASK Get the current value of the audit preselection mask for non-attributable events. Data should point to an au_mask_t. The field am_success specifies which classes of successful audit events are to be logged to the audit trail. The field am_failure specifies which classes of failed audit events are to be logged. The value of both fields is the bitwise OR'ing of the event classes specified in bsm/audit.h. The various audit classes are described more fully in audit_class(5). A_SETKMASK Set the current value of the audit preselection mask for non-attributable events. Data should point to an au_mask_t. The masks are defined as described in A_GETKMASK. A_GETQCTRL Get the current settings for the audit queue (specify-ing (specifying ing in kernel buffer size, percentage of free filesys-tem filesystem tem blocks, and limits to the number of audit records allowed). Data should point to an au_qctrl_t. A_SETQCTRL Set the current settings for the audit queue. Data should point to an au_qctrl_t. A_GETCOND Gets the current condition of the auditing subsystem. If the value is AUC_AUDITING, then the audit implemen-tation implementation tation is currently running. If the value is AUC_NOAU-DIT AUC_NOAUDIT DIT then the audit implementation is currently turned off. Data should point to a long. A_SETCOND Sets the condition of the auditing subsystem. If AUC_NOAUDIT is set, then auditing is temporarily sus-pended. suspended. pended. If AUC_AUDITING is set, auditing is resumed. If AUC_DISABLED is set, the auditing system will shut-down, shutdown, down, draining all audit records and closing out the audit trail file. To re-enable auditing, a call to auditctl is required in addition to setting the condi-tion condition tion to AUC_AUDITING. Data should point to a long. A_GETCLASS Returns the audit class for the specified audit event. Data should point to a au_evclassmap_t. A_SETCLASS Sets the audit class for the specified audit event. Data should point to a au_evclassmap_t. A_GETPINFO Returns the audit information stored in the credential for the current process. Data should point to a auditpinfo_t. A_SETPMASK Sets the audit settings for a process. The audit user ID, preselection masks for both success and failure, and terminal IDs must be set. Data should point to a auditpinfo_t struct. A_SETFSIZE Set the limit on audit trail file size. File size is in bytes. The file size specified is treated as an advisory limit. The system will make a best effort attempt to rotate log files before they exceed the requested maximum size, but makes no guarantees on log file size Data should point to a au_fstat_t struct. The af_filesz field is used to specify the new file size, which must be greater than MIN_AUDIT_FILE_SIZE. A value of 0 indicates no limit on the audit trail's size. The af_currsz field is ignored. A errno value of EINVAL indicates a maximum file size that is too small. A_GETFSIZE Return the maximum allowable size of the audit trail, and the current size of the audit trail. Data should point to a au_fstat_t struct. A_GETPINFO_ADDR Not implemented, returns ENOSYS. A_GETKAUDIT Not implemented, returns ENOSYS. A_SETKAUDIT Not implemented, returns ENOSYS. RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS Errors are specific to the operation requested. In addition, rhe auditon() system call will fail if: [EINVAL] Length is less than or equal to zero, or if it is greater than any of the expected structures. SEE ALSO audit(2), auditctl(2), getauid(2), setauid(2), getaudit(2), setaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), setaudit_addr(2), audit_class(5) HISTORY The auditon() function call first appeared in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). Darwin July 30, 2007 Darwin |