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28.Dd April 19, 2005
29.Dt AU_CONTROL 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm setac ,
33.Nm endac ,
34.Nm getacdir ,
35.Nm getacmin ,
36.Nm getacexpire ,
37.Nm getacfilesz ,
38.Nm getacflg ,
39.Nm getacna ,
40.Nm getacpol ,
41.Nm au_poltostr ,
42.Nm au_strtopol
43.Nd "look up information from the audit_control database"
44.Sh LIBRARY
45.Lb libbsm
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.In bsm/libbsm.h
48.Ft void
49.Fn setac void
50.Ft void
51.Fn endac void
52.Ft int
53.Fn getacdir "char *name" "int len"
54.Ft int
55.Fn getacmin "int *min_val"
56.Ft int
57.Fn getacexpire "int *andflg, time_t *age, size_t *size"
58.Ft int
59.Fn getacfilesz "size_t *size_val"
60.Ft int
61.Fn getacflg "char *auditstr" "int len"
62.Ft int
63.Fn getacna "char *auditstr" "int len"
64.Ft int
65.Fn getacpol "char *auditstr" "size_t len"
66.Ft ssize_t
67.Fn au_poltostr "int policy" "size_t maxsize" "char *buf"
68.Ft int
69.Fn au_strtopol "const char *polstr" "int *policy"
70.Sh DESCRIPTION
71These interfaces may be used to look up information from the
72.Xr audit_control 5
73database, which contains various audit-related administrative parameters.
74.Pp
75The
76.Fn setac
77function
78resets the database iterator to the beginning of the database; see the
79.Sx BUGS
80section for more information.
81.Pp
82The
83.Fn endac
84function
85closes the
86.Xr audit_control 5
87database.
88.Pp
89The
90.Fn getacdir
91function
92returns the name of the directory where log data is stored via the passed
93character buffer
94.Fa name
95of length
96.Fa len .
97.Pp
98The
99.Fn getacmin
100function
101returns the minimum free disk space for the audit log target file system via
102the passed
103.Fa min_val
104variable.
105.Pp
106The
107.Fn getacexpire
108function
109returns the audit trail file expiration parameters in the passed
110.Vt int
111buffer
112.Fa andflg ,
113.Vt time_t
114buffer
115.Fa age
116and
117.Vt size_t
118buffer
119.Fa size .
120If the parameter is not specified in the
121.Xr audit_control 5
122file it is set to zero.
123.Pp
124The
125.Fn getacfilesz
126function
127returns the audit trail rotation size in the passed
128.Vt size_t
129buffer
130.Fa size_val .
131.Pp
132The
133.Fn getacflg
134function
135returns the audit system flags via the the passed character buffer
136.Fa auditstr
137of length
138.Fa len .
139.Pp
140The
141.Fn getacna
142function
143returns the non-attributable flags via the passed character buffer
144.Fa auditstr
145of length
146.Fa len .
147.Pp
148The
149.Fn getacpol
150function
151returns the audit policy flags via the passed character buffer
152.Fa auditstr
153of length
154.Fa len .
155.Pp
156The
157.Fn au_poltostr
158function
159converts a numeric audit policy mask,
160.Fa policy ,
161to a string in the passed character buffer
162.Fa buf
163of lenth
164.Fa maxsize .
165.Pp
166The
167.Fn au_strtopol
168function
169converts an audit policy flags string,
170.Fa polstr ,
171to a numeric audit policy mask returned via
172.Fa policy .
173.Sh RETURN VALULES
174The
175.Fn getacdir ,
176.Fn getacmin ,
177.Fn getacexpire ,
178.Fn getacflg ,
179.Fn getacna ,
180.Fn getacpol ,
181and
182.Fn au_strtopol
183functions
184return 0 on success, or a negative value on failure, along with error
185information in
186.Va errno .
187.Pp
188The
189.Fn au_poltostr
190function
191returns a string length of 0 or more on success, or a negative value on
192if there is a failure.
193.Pp
194Functions that return a string value will return a failure if there is
195insufficient room in the passed character buffer for the full string.
196.Sh SEE ALSO
197.Xr libbsm 3 ,
198.Xr audit_control 5
199.Sh HISTORY
200The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
201division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
202It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
203the OpenBSM distribution.
204.Sh AUTHORS
205.An -nosplit
206This software was created by
207.An Robert Watson ,
208.An Wayne Salamon ,
209and
210.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
211for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
212Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
213.Pp
214The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
215stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
216.Sh BUGS
217These routines cannot currently distinguish between an entry not being found
218and an error accessing the database.
219The implementation should be changed to return an error via
220.Va errno
221when
222.Dv NULL
223is returned.
224.Sh BUGS
225There is no reason for the
226.Fn setac
227interface to be exposed as part of the public API, as it is called implicitly
228by other access functions and iteration is not supported.
229.Pp
230These interfaces inconsistently return various negative values depending on
231the failure mode, and do not always set
232.Va errno
233on failure.
234