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28.Dd April 19, 2005
29.Dt LIBBSM 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm libbsm
33.Nd "Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API"
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libbsm
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In bsm/libbsm.h
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41library routines provide an interface to BSM audit record streams, allowing
42both the parsing of existing audit streams, as well as the creation of new
43audit records and streams.
44.Sh INTERFACES
45The
46.Nm
47library
48provides a large number of Audit programming interfaces in several classes:
49event stream interfaces, class interfaces, control interfaces, event
50interfaces, I/O interfaces, mask interfaces, notification interfaces, token
51interfaces, and user interfaces.
52These are described respectively in the
53.Xr au_class 3 ,
54.Xr au_control 3 ,
55.Xr au_event 3 ,
56.Xr au_mask 3 ,
57.Xr au_notify 3 ,
58.Xr au_stream 3 ,
59.Xr au_token 3 ,
60and
61.Xr au_user 3
62manual pages.
63.Ss Audit Event Stream Interfaces
64Audit event stream interfaces support interaction with file-backed audit
65event streams:
66.Xr au_close 3 ,
67.Xr au_close_buffer 3 ,
68.Xr au_free_token 3 ,
69.Xr au_open 3 ,
70.Xr au_write 3 ,
71.Xr audit_submit 3 .
72.Ss Audit Class Interfaces
73Audit class interfaces support the look up of information from the
74.Xr audit_class 5
75database:
76.Xr endauclass 3 ,
77.Xr getauclassent 3 ,
78.Xr getauclassent_r 3 ,
79.Xr getauclassnam 3 ,
80.Xr getauclassnam_r 3 ,
81.Xr setauclass 3 .
82.Ss Audit Control Interfaces
83Audit control interfaces support the look up of information from the
84.Xr audit_control 5
85database:
86.Xr endac 3 ,
87.Xr setac 3 ,
88.Xr getacdir 3 ,
89.Xr getacfilesz 3 ,
90.Xr getacflg 3 ,
91.Xr getacmin 3 ,
92.Xr getacna 3 ,
93.Xr getacpol 3 ,
94.Xr au_poltostr 3 ,
95.Xr au_strtopol 3 .
96.Ss Audit Event Interfaces
97Audit event interfaces support the look up of information from the
98.Xr audit_event 5
99database:
100.Xr endauevent 3 ,
101.Xr setauevent 3 ,
102.Xr getauevent 3 ,
103.Xr getauevent_r 3 ,
104.Xr getauevnam 3 ,
105.Xr getauevnam_r 3 ,
106.Xr getauevnonam 3 ,
107.Xr getauevnonam_r 3 ,
108.Xr getauevnum 3 ,
109.Xr getauevnum_r 3 .
110.Ss Audit I/O Interfaces
111Audit I/O interfaces support the processing and printing of tokens, as well
112as the reading of audit records:
113.Xr au_fetch_tok 3 ,
114.Xr au_print_tok 3 ,
115.Xr au_read_rec 3 .
116.Ss Audit Mask Interfaces
117Audit mask interfaces convert support the conversion between strings and
118.Vt au_mask_t
119values.
120They may also be used to determine if a particular audit event is matched
121by a mask:
122.Xr au_preselect 3 ,
123.Xr getauditflagsbin 3 ,
124.Xr getauditflagschar 3 .
125.Ss Audit Notification Interfaces
126Audit notification routines track audit state in a form permitting efficient
127update, avoiding frequent system calls to check the kernel audit state:
128.Xr au_get_state 3 ,
129.Xr au_notify_initialize 3 ,
130.Xr au_notify_terminate 3 .
131These interfaces are implemented only for Darwin/Mac OS X.
132.Ss Audit Token Interface
133Audit token interfaces permit the creation of tokens for use in creating
134audit records for submission to event streams.
135Each interface converts a C type to its
136.Vt token_t
137representation:
138.Xr au_to_arg 3 ,
139.Xr au_to_arg32 3 ,
140.Xr au_to_arg64 3 ,
141.Xr au_to_attr64 3 ,
142.Xr au_to_data 3 ,
143.Xr au_to_exec_args 3 ,
144.Xr au_to_exec_env 3 ,
145.Xr au_to_exit 3 ,
146.Xr au_to_file 3 ,
147.Xr au_to_groups 3 ,
148.Xr au_to_header32 3 ,
149.Xr au_to_header64 3 ,
150.Xr au_to_in_addr 3 ,
151.Xr au_to_in_addr_ex 3 ,
152.Xr au_to_ip 3 ,
153.Xr au_to_ipc 3 ,
154.Xr au_to_ipc_perm 3 ,
155.Xr au_to_iport 3 ,
156.Xr au_to_me 3 ,
157.Xr au_to_newgroups 3 ,
158.Xr au_to_opaque 3 ,
159.Xr au_to_path 3 ,
160.Xr au_to_process 3 ,
161.Xr au_to_process32 3 ,
162.Xr au_to_process64 3 ,
163.Xr au_to_process_ex 3 ,
164.Xr au_to_process32_ex 3 ,
165.Xr au_to_process64_ex 3 ,
166.Xr au_to_return 3 ,
167.Xr au_to_return32 3 ,
168.Xr au_to_return64 3 ,
169.Xr au_to_seq 3 ,
170.Xr au_to_sock_inet 3 ,
171.Xr au_to_sock_inet32 3 ,
172.Xr au_to_sock_inet128 3 ,
173.Xr au_to_subject 3 ,
174.Xr au_to_subject32 3 ,
175.Xr au_to_subject64 3 ,
176.Xr au_to_subject_ex 3 ,
177.Xr au_to_subject32_ex 3 ,
178.Xr au_to_subject64_ex 3 ,
179.Xr au_to_text 3 ,
180.Xr au_to_trailer 3 ,
181.Xr au_to_zonename 3 .
182.Ss Audit User Interfaces
183Audit user interfaces support the look up of information from the
184.Xr audit_user 5
185database:
186.Xr au_user_mask 3 ,
187.Xr endauuser 3 ,
188.Xr setauuser 3 ,
189.Xr getauuserent 3 ,
190.Xr getauuserent_r 3 ,
191.Xr getauusernam 3 ,
192.Xr getauusernam_r 3 ,
193.Xr getfauditflags 3 .
194.Sh SEE ALSO
195.Xr au_class 3 ,
196.Xr audit_submit 3 ,
197.Xr au_mask 3 ,
198.Xr au_notify 3 ,
199.Xr au_stream 3 ,
200.Xr au_token 3 ,
201.Xr au_user 3 ,
202.Xr audit_class 5 ,
203.Xr audit_control 5
204.Sh HISTORY
205The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
206division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
207It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
208the OpenBSM distribution.
209.Sh AUTHORS
210.An -nosplit
211This software was created by
212.An Robert Watson ,
213.An Wayne Salamon ,
214and
215.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
216for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
217Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
218.Pp
219The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
220stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
221.Sh BUGS
222Bugs would not be unlikely.
223.Pp
224The
225.Nm
226library implementations are generally thread-safe, but not reentrant.
227.Pp
228The assignment of routines to classes could use some work, as it is
229decidely ad hoc.
230For example,
231.Fn au_read_rec
232should probably be considered a stream routine.
233