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28.Dd April 19, 2005
29.Dt GETAUID 2
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm getauid
33.Nd "retrieve audit session ID"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.In bsm/audit.h
36.Ft int
37.Fn getauid "au_id_t *auid"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Fn getauid
41system call
42retrieves the active audit session ID for the current process via the
43.Vt au_id_t
44pointed to by
45.Fa auid .
46.Pp
47This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.
48.Sh RETURN VALUES
49.Rv -std
50.Sh SEE ALSO
51.Xr audit 2 ,
52.Xr auditon 2 ,
53.Xr getaudit 2 ,
54.Xr getaudit_addr 2 ,
55.Xr setaudit 2 ,
56.Xr setaudit_addr 2 ,
57.Xr setauid 2 ,
58.Xr libbsm 3
59.Sh HISTORY
60The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
61division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
62It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
63the OpenBSM distribution.
64.Sh AUTHORS
65.An -nosplit
66This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
67of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
68Additional authors include
69.An Wayne Salamon ,
70.An Robert Watson ,
71and SPARTA Inc.
72.Pp
73The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
74stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
75.Pp
76This manual page was written by
77.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .
78