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