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28.Dd April 19, 2005
29.Dt AU_MASK 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm au_preselect ,
33.Nm getauditflagsbin ,
34.Nm getauditflagschar
35.Nd "convert between string and numeric values of audit masks"
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libbsm
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In bsm/libbsm.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn au_preselect "au_event_t event" "au_mask_t *mask_p" "int sorf" "int flag"
42.Ft int
43.Fn getauditflagsbin "char *auditstr" "au_mask_t *masks"
44.Ft int
45.Fn getauditflagschar "char *auditstr" "au_mask_t *masks" "int verbose"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47These interfaces support processing of an audit mask represented by type
48.Vt au_mask_t ,
49including conversion between numeric and text formats, and computing whether
50or not an event is matched by a mask.
51.Pp
52The
53.Fn au_preselect
54function
55calculates whether or not the audit event passed via
56.Fa event
57is matched by the audit mask passed via
58.Fa mask_p .
59The
60.Fa sorf
61argument indicates whether or not to consider the event as a success,
62if the
63.Dv AU_PRS_SUCCESS
64flag is set, or failure, if the
65.Dv AU_PRS_FAILURE
66flag is set.
67The
68.Fa flag
69argument accepts additional arguments influencing the behavior of
70.Fn au_preselect ,
71including
72.Dv AU_PRS_REREAD ,
73which causes the event to be re-looked up rather than read from the cache,
74or
75.Dv AU_PRS_USECACHE
76which forces use of the cache.
77.Pp
78The
79.Fn getauditflagsbin
80function
81converts a string representation of an audit mask passed via a character
82string pointed to by
83.Fa auditstr ,
84returning the resulting mask, if valid, via
85.Fa *masks .
86.Pp
87The
88.Fn getauditflagschar
89function
90converts the audit event mask passed via
91.Fa *masks
92and converts it to a character string in a buffer pointed to by
93.Fa auditstr .
94See the
95.Sx BUGS
96section for more information on how to provide a buffer of
97sufficient size.
98If the
99.Fa verbose
100flag is set, the class description string retrieved from
101.Xr audit_class 5
102will be used; otherwise, the two-character class name.
103.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
104The
105.Fn au_preselect
106function
107makes implicit use of various audit database routines, and may influence
108the behavior of simultaneous or interleaved processing of those databases by
109other code.
110.Sh RETURN VALUES
111The
112.Fn au_preselect
113function
114returns 0 on success, or returns \-1 if there is a failure looking up the
115event type or other database access, in which case
116.Va errno
117will be set to indicate the error.
118It returns 1 if the event is matched; 0 if not.
119.Pp
120.Rv -std getauditflagsbin getauditflagschar
121.Sh SEE ALSO
122.Xr libbsm 3 ,
123.Xr audit_class 5
124.Sh HISTORY
125The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
126division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
127It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
128the OpenBSM distribution.
129.Sh AUTHORS
130.An -nosplit
131This software was created by
132.An Robert Watson ,
133.An Wayne Salamon ,
134and
135.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
136for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
137Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
138.Pp
139The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
140stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
141.Sh BUGS
142The
143.Va errno
144variable
145may not always be properly set in the event of an error.
146.Pp
147The
148.Fn getauditflagschar
149function
150does not provide a way to indicate how long the character buffer is, in order
151to detect overflow.
152As a result, the caller must always provide a buffer of sufficient length for
153any possible mask, which may be calculated as three times the number of
154non-zero bits in the mask argument in the event non-verbose class names are
155used, and is not trivially predictable for verbose class names.
156This API should be replaced with a more robust one.
157