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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_stream 3 ,
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_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_free_token 3 ,
64.Xr au_free_token 3 ,
65.Xr au_open 3 ,
66.Xr au_write 3 ,
67.Xr au_close 3 .
68.Ss Audit Class Interfaces
69Audit class interfaces support the look up of information from the
70.Xr audit_class 5
71database:
72.Xr getauclassent 3 ,
73.Xr getauclassent_r 3 ,
74.Xr getauclassnam 3 ,
75.Xr getauclassnam_r 3 ,
76.Xr setauclass 3 ,
77.Xr endauclass 3 .
78.Ss Audit Control Interfaces
79Audit control interfaces support the look up of information from the
80.Xr audit_control 5
81database:
82.Xr setac 3 ,
83.Xr endac 3 ,
84.Xr getacdir 3 ,
85.Xr getacmin 3 ,
86.Xr getacflg 3 ,
87.Xr getacna 3 .
88.Ss Audit Event Interfaces
89Audit event interfaces support the look up of information from the
90.Xr audit_event 5
91database:
92.Xr setauevent 3 ,
93.Xr endauevent 3 ,
94.Xr getauevent 3 ,
95.Xr getauevent_r 3 ,
96.Xr getauevnam 3 ,
97.Xr getauevnam_r 3 ,
98.Xr getauevnum 3 ,
99.Xr getauevnum_r 3 ,
100.Xr getauevnonam 3 ,
101.Xr getauevnonam_r 3 ,
102.Ss Audit I/O Interfaces
103Audit I/O interfaces support the processing and printing of tokens, as well
104as the reading of audit records:
105.Xr au_fetch_tok 3 ,
106.Xr au_print_tok 3 ,
107.Xr au_read_rec 3 .
108.Ss Audit Mask Interfaces
109Audit mask interfaces convert support the conversion between strings and
110.Vt au_mask_t
111values.
112They may also be used to determine if a particular audit event is matched
113by a mask:
114.Xr au_preselect 3 ,
115.Xr getauditflagsbin 3 ,
116.Xr getauditflagschar 3 .
117.Ss Audit Notification Interfaces
118Audit notification routines track audit state in a form permitting efficient
119update, avoiding frequent system calls to check the kernel audit state:
120.Xr au_notify_initialize 3 ,
121.Xr au_notify_terminate 3 ,
122.Xr au_get_state 3 .
123These interfaces are implemented only for Darwin/Mac OS X.
124.Ss Audit Token Interface
125Audit token interfaces permit the creation of tokens for use in creating
126audit records for submission to event streams.
127Each interface converts a C type to its
128.Vt token_t
129representation.
130.Xr au_to_arg32 3 ,
131.Xr au_to_arg64 3 ,
132.Xr au_to_arg 3 ,
133.Xr au_to_attr64 3 ,
134.Xr au_to_data 3 ,
135.Xr au_to_exit 3 ,
136.Xr au_to_groups 3 ,
137.Xr au_to_newgroups 3 ,
138.Xr au_to_in_addr 3 ,
139.Xr au_to_in_addr_ex 3 ,
140.Xr au_to_ip 3 ,
141.Xr au_to_ipc 3 ,
142.Xr au_to_ipc_perm 3 ,
143.Xr au_to_iport 3 ,
144.Xr au_to_opaque 3 ,
145.Xr au_to_file 3 ,
146.Xr au_to_text 3 ,
147.Xr au_to_path 3 ,
148.Xr au_to_process32 3 ,
149.Xr au_to_process64 3 ,
150.Xr au_to_process 3 ,
151.Xr au_to_process32_ex 3 ,
152.Xr au_to_process64_ex 3 ,
153.Xr au_to_process_ex 3 ,
154.Xr au_to_return32 3 ,
155.Xr au_to_return64 3 ,
156.Xr au_to_return 3 ,
157.Xr au_to_seq 3 ,
158.Xr au_to_socket 3 ,
159.Xr au_to_socket_ex_32 3 ,
160.Xr au_to_socket_ex_128 3 ,
161.Xr au_to_sock_inet32 3 ,
162.Xr au_to_sock_inet128 3 ,
163.Xr au_to_sock_inet 3 ,
164.Xr au_to_subject32 3 ,
165.Xr au_to_subject64 3 ,
166.Xr au_to_subject 3 ,
167.Xr au_to_subject32_ex 3 ,
168.Xr au_to_subject64_ex 3 ,
169.Xr au_to_subject_ex 3 ,
170.Xr au_to_me 3 ,
171.Xr au_to_exec_args 3 ,
172.Xr au_to_exec_env 3 ,
173.Xr au_to_header32 3 ,
174.Xr au_to_header64 3 ,
175.Xr au_to_trailer 3 .
176.Ss Audit User Interfaces
177Audit user interfaces support the look up of information from the
178.Xr audit_user 5
179database:
180.Xr setauuser 3 ,
181.Xr endauuser 3 ,
182.Xr getauuserent 3 ,
183.Xr getauuserent_r 3 ,
184.Xr getauusernam 3 ,
185.Xr getauusernam_r 3 ,
186.Xr au_user_mask 3 ,
187.Xr getfauditflags 3 .
188.Sh SEE ALSO
189.Xr au_class 3 ,
190.Xr au_mask 3 ,
191.Xr au_notify 3 ,
192.Xr au_stream 3 ,
193.Xr au_token 3 ,
194.Xr au_user 3 ,
195.Xr audit_class 5 ,
196.Xr audit_control 5
197.Sh AUTHORS
198This software was created by Robert Watson, Wayne Salamon, and Suresh
199Krishnaswamy for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee,
200Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.
201.Pp
202The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
203stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
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 BUGS
210Bugs would not be unlikely.
211.Pp
212The
213.Nm
214library implementations are generally thread-safe, but not reentrant.
215.Pp
216The assignment of routines to classes could use some work, as it is
217decidely ad hoc.
218For example,
219.Fn au_read_rec
220should probably be considered a stream routine.
221