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auditon(2)                  BSD System Calls Manual                 auditon(2)


NAME

     auditon -- configure system audit parameters


SYNOPSIS

     #include <bsm/audit.h>

     int
     auditon(int cmd, void *data, u_int length);


DESCRIPTION

     The auditon() system call is used to manipulate various audit control
     operations.  The data argument should point to a structure whose type
     depends on the command.  The length argument specifies the size of *data
     in bytes.  The cmd argument may be any of the following:

     A_SETPOLICY      Set audit policy flags.  The data argument must point to
                      a int value set to one or more the following audit pol-
                      icy control values bitwise OR'ed together: AUDIT_CNT,
                      AUDIT_AHLT, AUDIT_ARGV, and AUDIT_ARGE.  If AUDIT_CNT is
                      set, the system will continue even if it becomes low on
                      space and discontinue logging events until the low space
                      condition is remedied.  If it is not set, audited events
                      will block until the low space condition is remedied.
                      Unaudited events, however, are unaffected.  If
                      AUDIT_AHLT is set, a panic(9) if it cannot write an
                      event to the global audit log file.  If AUDIT_ARGV is
                      set, then the argument list passed to the execve(2) sys-
                      tem call will be audited.  If AUDIT_ARGE is set, then
                      the environment variables passed to the execve(2) system
                      call will be audited.  The default policy is none of the
                      audit policy control flags set.

     A_SETKAUDIT      Set the host information.  The data argument must point
                      to a auditinfo_addr_t structure containing the host IP
                      address information.  After setting, audit records that
                      are created as a result of kernel events will contain
                      this information.

     A_SETKMASK       Set the kernel preselection masks (success and failure).
                      The data argument must point to a au_mask_t structure
                      containing the mask values as defined in <bsm/audit.h>.
                      These masks are used for non-attributable audit event
                      preselection.  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 audit
                      event classes specified in bsm/audit.h.  The various
                      audit classes are described more fully in
                      audit_class(5).

     A_SETQCTRL       Set kernel audit queue parameters.  The data argument
                      must point to a au_qctrl_t structure (defined in
                      <bsm/audit.h>) containing the kernel audit queue control
                      settings: aq_hiwater, aq_lowater, aq_bufsz, aq_delay,
                      and aq_minfree.  The field aq_hiwater defines the maxi-
                      mum number of audit record entries in the queue used to
                      store the audit records ready for delivery to disk.  New
                      records are inserted at the tail of the queue and
                      removed from the head.  For new records which would
                      exceed the high water mark, the calling thread is
                      inserted into the wait queue, waiting for the audit
                      queue to have enough space available as defined with the
                      field aq_lowater.  The field aq_bufsz defines the maxi-
                      mum length of the audit record that can be supplied with
                      audit(2).  The field aq_delay is unused.  The field
                      aq_minfree specifies the minimum amount of free blocks
                      on the disk device used to store audit records.  If the
                      value of free blocks falls below the configured minimum
                      amount, the kernel informs the audit daemon about low
                      disk space.  The value is to be specified in percent of
                      free file system blocks.  A value of 0 results in a dis-
                      abling of the check.  The default and maximum values
                      (default/maximum) for the audit queue control parameters
                      are:

                            aq_hiwater    100/10000 (audit records)
                            aq_lowater    10/aq_hiwater (audit records)
                            aq_bufsz      32767/1048576 (bytes)
                            aq_delay      (Not currently used.)

     A_SETSTAT        Return ENOSYS.  (Not implemented.)

     A_SETUMASK       Return ENOSYS.  (Not implemented.)

     A_SETSMASK       Return ENOSYS.  (Not implemented.)

     A_SETCOND        Set the current auditing condition.  The data argument
                      must point to a int value containing the new audit con-
                      dition, one of AUC_AUDITING, AUC_NOAUDIT, or
                      AUC_DISABLED.  If AUC_NOAUDIT is set, then auditing is
                      temporarily suspended. If AUC_AUDITING is set, auditing
                      is resumed. If AUC_DISABLED is set, the auditing system
                      will shutdown, draining all audit records and closing
                      out the audit trail file.

     A_SETCLASS       Set the event class preselection mask for an audit
                      event.  The data argument must point to a
                      au_evclass_map_t structure containing the audit event
                      and mask.  The field ec_number is the audit event and
                      ec_class is the audit class mask. See audit_event(5) for
                      more information on audit event to class mapping.

     A_SETPMASK       Set the preselection masks for a process.  The data
                      argument must point to a auditpinfo_t structure that
                      contains the given process's audit preselection masks
                      for both success and failure.  The field ap_pid is the
                      process id of the target process.  The field ap_mask
                      must point to a au_mask_t structure which holds the pre-
                      selection masks as described in the section above.

     A_SETFSIZE       Set the maximum size of the audit log file.  The data
                      argument must point to a au_fstat_t structure with the
                      af_filesz field set to the maximum audit log file size.
                      A value of 0 indicates no limit to the size.

     A_SETSFLAGS      Set the audit sessions flags for the current session.
                      The data argument must point to an au_asflgs_t value
                      containing the new audit session flags.  Audit session
                      flags may be updated only according to local access con-
                      trol policy.

     A_GETCLASS       Return the event to class mapping for the designated
                      audit event.  The data argument must point to a
                      au_evclass_map_t structure. See the A_SETCLASS section
                      above for more information.

     A_GETKAUDIT      Get the current host information.  The data argument
                      must point to a auditinfo_addr_t structure.

     A_GETPINFO       Return the audit settings for a process.  The data argu-
                      ment must point to a auditpinfo_t structure which will
                      be set to contain ap_auid (the audit ID), ap_mask (the
                      preselection mask), ap_termid (the terminal ID), and
                      ap_asid (the audit session ID) of the given target
                      process.  The process ID of the target process is passed
                      into the kernel using the ap_pid field.  See the section
                      A_SETPMASK above and getaudit(2) for more information.

     A_GETPINFO_ADDR  Return the extended audit settings for a process.  The
                      data argument must point to a auditpinfo_addr_t struc-
                      ture which is similar to the auditpinfo_addr_t structure
                      described above.  The exception is the ap_termid (the
                      terminal ID) field which points to a au_tid_addr_t
                      structure can hold much a larger terminal address and an
                      address type.  The process ID of the target process is
                      passed into the kernel using the ap_pid field.  See the
                      section A_SETPMASK above and getaudit(2) for more infor-
                      mation.

     A_GETSINFO_ADDR  Return the extended audit settings for a session.  The
                      data argument must point to a auditinfo_addr_t struc-
                      ture.  The audit session ID of the target session is
                      passed into the kernel using the ai_asid field.  See
                      getaudit_addr(2) for more information about the
                      auditinfo_addr_t structure.

     A_GETKMASK       Return the current kernel preselection masks.  The data
                      argument must point to a au_mask_t structure which will
                      be set to the current kernel preselection masks for non-
                      attributable events.

     A_GETPOLICY      Return the current audit policy setting.  The data argu-
                      ment must point to a int value which will be set to one
                      of the current audit policy flags.  The audit policy
                      flags are described in the A_SETPOLICY section above.

     A_GETQCTRL       Return the current kernel audit queue control parame-
                      ters.  The data argument must point to a au_qctrl_t
                      structure which will be set to the current kernel audit
                      queue control parameters.  See the A_SETQCTL section
                      above for more information.

     A_GETFSIZE       Returns the maximum size of the audit log file.  The
                      data argument must point to a au_fstat_t structure.  The
                      af_filesz field will be set to the maximum audit log
                      file size.  A value of 0 indicates no limit to the size.
                      The af_currsz field will be set to the current audit log
                      file size.

     A_GETSFLAGS      Returns the audit session flags for the current session.
                      The data argument must point to an au_asflgs_t value
                      which will be set with the current session flags.

     A_GETCWD         Return ENOSYS.  (Not implemented.)

     A_GETCAR         Return ENOSYS.  (Not implemented.)

     A_GETSTAT        Return ENOSYS.  (Not implemented.)

     A_GETCOND        Return the current auditing condition.  The data argu-
                      ment must point to a int value which will be set to the
                      current audit condition, one of AUC_AUDITING,
                      AUC_NOAUDIT or AUC_DISABLED.  See the A_SETCOND section
                      above for more information.

     A_SENDTRIGGER    Send a trigger to the audit daemon.  The data argument
                      must point to a int value set to one of the acceptable
                      trigger values: AUDIT_TRIGGER_LOW_SPACE (low disk space
                      where the audit log resides), AUDIT_TRIGGER_OPEN_NEW
                      (open a new audit log file), AUDIT_TRIGGER_READ_FILE
                      (read the audit_control file),
                      AUDIT_TRIGGER_CLOSE_AND_DIE (close the current log file
                      and exit), AUDIT_TRIGGER_NO_SPACE (no disk space left
                      for audit log file).  AUDIT_TRIGGER_ROTATE_USER (request
                      audit log file rotation).  AUDIT_TRIGGER_INITIALIZE
                      (initialize audit subsystem for Mac OS X only).  or
                      AUDIT_TRIGGER_EXPIRE_TRAILS (request audit log file
                      expiration).


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 auditon() function will fail if:

     [ENOSYS]           Returned by options not yet implemented.

     [EFAULT]           A failure occurred while data transferred to or from
                        the kernel failed.

     [EINVAL]           Illegal argument was passed by a system call.

     [EPERM]            The process does not have sufficient permission to
                        complete the operation.

     The A_SENDTRIGGER command is specific to the FreeBSD and Mac OS X imple-
     mentations, and is not present in Solaris.


SEE ALSO

     audit(2), auditctl(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), getauid(2),
     setaudit(2), setaudit_addr(2), setauid(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 Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, Robert
     Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and Wayne Salamon <wsalamon@FreeBSD.org>.

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