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