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27.Dd March 5, 2009
28.Dt LIBBSM 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm libbsm
32.Nd "Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API"
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb libbsm
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In bsm/libbsm.h
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Nm
40library routines provide an interface to BSM audit record streams, allowing
41both the parsing of existing audit streams, as well as the creation of new
42audit records and streams.
43.Sh INTERFACES
44The
45.Nm
46library
47provides a large number of Audit programming interfaces in several classes:
48event stream interfaces, class interfaces, control interfaces, event
49interfaces, I/O interfaces, mask interfaces, notification interfaces, token
50interfaces, and user interfaces.
51These are described respectively in the
52.Xr au_class 3 ,
53.Xr au_control 3 ,
54.Xr au_event 3 ,
55.Xr au_mask 3 ,
56.Xr au_notify 3 ,
57.Xr au_stream 3 ,
58.Xr au_token 3 ,
59and
60.Xr au_user 3
61manual pages.
62.Ss Audit Event Stream Interfaces
63Audit event stream interfaces support interaction with file-backed audit
64event streams:
65.Xr au_close 3 ,
66.Xr au_close_buffer 3 ,
67.Xr au_free_token 3 ,
68.Xr au_open 3 ,
69.Xr au_write 3 ,
70.Xr audit_submit 3 .
71.Ss Audit Class Interfaces
72Audit class interfaces support the look up of information from the
73.Xr audit_class 5
74database:
75.Xr endauclass 3 ,
76.Xr getauclassent 3 ,
77.Xr getauclassent_r 3 ,
78.Xr getauclassnam 3 ,
79.Xr getauclassnam_r 3 ,
80.Xr setauclass 3 .
81.Ss Audit Control Interfaces
82Audit control interfaces support the look up of information from the
83.Xr audit_control 5
84database:
85.Xr endac 3 ,
86.Xr setac 3 ,
87.Xr getacdir 3 ,
88.Xr getacfilesz 3 ,
89.Xr getacflg 3 ,
90.Xr getacmin 3 ,
91.Xr getacna 3 ,
92.Xr getacpol 3 ,
93.Xr au_poltostr 3 ,
94.Xr au_strtopol 3 .
95.Ss Audit Event Interfaces
96Audit event interfaces support the look up of information from the
97.Xr audit_event 5
98database:
99.Xr endauevent 3 ,
100.Xr setauevent 3 ,
101.Xr getauevent 3 ,
102.Xr getauevent_r 3 ,
103.Xr getauevnam 3 ,
104.Xr getauevnam_r 3 ,
105.Xr getauevnonam 3 ,
106.Xr getauevnonam_r 3 ,
107.Xr getauevnum 3 ,
108.Xr getauevnum_r 3 .
109.Ss Audit I/O Interfaces
110Audit I/O interfaces support the processing and printing of tokens, as well
111as the reading of audit records:
112.Xr au_fetch_tok 3 ,
113.Xr au_print_tok 3 ,
114.Xr au_read_rec 3 .
115.Ss Audit Mask Interfaces
116Audit mask interfaces convert support the conversion between strings and
117.Vt au_mask_t
118values.
119They may also be used to determine if a particular audit event is matched
120by a mask:
121.Xr au_preselect 3 ,
122.Xr getauditflagsbin 3 ,
123.Xr getauditflagschar 3 .
124.Ss Audit Notification Interfaces
125Audit notification routines track audit state in a form permitting efficient
126update, avoiding frequent system calls to check the kernel audit state:
127.Xr au_get_state 3 ,
128.Xr au_notify_initialize 3 ,
129.Xr au_notify_terminate 3 .
130These interfaces are implemented only for Darwin/Mac OS X.
131.Ss Audit Token Interface
132Audit token interfaces permit the creation of tokens for use in creating
133audit records for submission to event streams.
134Each interface converts a C type to its
135.Vt token_t
136representation:
137.Xr au_to_arg 3 ,
138.Xr au_to_arg32 3 ,
139.Xr au_to_arg64 3 ,
140.Xr au_to_attr64 3 ,
141.Xr au_to_data 3 ,
142.Xr au_to_exec_args 3 ,
143.Xr au_to_exec_env 3 ,
144.Xr au_to_exit 3 ,
145.Xr au_to_file 3 ,
146.Xr au_to_groups 3 ,
147.Xr au_to_header32 3 ,
148.Xr au_to_header64 3 ,
149.Xr au_to_in_addr 3 ,
150.Xr au_to_in_addr_ex 3 ,
151.Xr au_to_ip 3 ,
152.Xr au_to_ipc 3 ,
153.Xr au_to_ipc_perm 3 ,
154.Xr au_to_iport 3 ,
155.Xr au_to_me 3 ,
156.Xr au_to_newgroups 3 ,
157.Xr au_to_opaque 3 ,
158.Xr au_to_path 3 ,
159.Xr au_to_process 3 ,
160.Xr au_to_process32 3 ,
161.Xr au_to_process64 3 ,
162.Xr au_to_process_ex 3 ,
163.Xr au_to_process32_ex 3 ,
164.Xr au_to_process64_ex 3 ,
165.Xr au_to_return 3 ,
166.Xr au_to_return32 3 ,
167.Xr au_to_return64 3 ,
168.Xr au_to_seq 3 ,
169.Xr au_to_sock_inet 3 ,
170.Xr au_to_sock_inet32 3 ,
171.Xr au_to_sock_inet128 3 ,
172.Xr au_to_socket_ex 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.Ss Audit Constant Conversion Interfaces
195These functions convert between BSM and local constants, including the
196.Xr errno 2
197number, socket type, and protocol famil spaces, and must be used to generate
198and interpret BSM return and extended socket tokens:
199.Xr au_bsm_to_domain 3 ,
200.Xr au_bsm_to_errno 3 ,
201.Xr au_bsm_to_fcntl_cmd 3 ,
202.Xr au_bsm_to_socket_type 3 ,
203.Xr au_domain_to_bsm 3 ,
204.Xr au_errno_to_bsm 3 ,
205.Xr au_fcntl_cmd_to_bsm 3 ,
206.Xr au_socket_type_to_bsm 3 .
207.Sh SEE ALSO
208.Xr au_class 3 ,
209.Xr au_domain 3 ,
210.Xr au_errno 3 ,
211.Xr au_mask 3 ,
212.Xr au_notify 3 ,
213.Xr au_socket_type 3 ,
214.Xr au_stream 3 ,
215.Xr au_token 3 ,
216.Xr au_user 3 ,
217.Xr audit_submit 3 ,
218.Xr audit_class 5 ,
219.Xr audit_control 5
220.Sh HISTORY
221The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
222division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., in 2004.
223It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
224the OpenBSM distribution.
225.Sh AUTHORS
226.An -nosplit
227This software was created by
228.An Robert Watson ,
229.An Wayne Salamon ,
230and
231.An Suresh Krishnaswamy
232for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
233Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
234.Pp
235The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
236stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
237.Sh BUGS
238Bugs would not be unlikely.
239.Pp
240The
241.Nm
242library implementations are generally thread-safe, but not reentrant.
243.Pp
244The assignment of routines to classes could use some work, as it is
245decidely ad hoc.
246For example,
247.Fn au_read_rec
248should probably be considered a stream routine.
249