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