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27.Dd April 19, 2005
28.Dt SETAUID 2
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm setauid
32.Nd "set audit session ID"
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.In bsm/audit.h
35.Ft int
36.Fn setauid "au_id_t *auid"
37.Sh DESCRIPTION
38The
39.Fn setauid
40system call
41sets the active audit session ID for the current process from the
42.Vt au_id_t
43pointed to by
44.Fa auid .
45.Pp
46This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.
47.Sh RETURN VALUES
48.Rv -std
49.Sh ERRORS
50The
51.Fn setauid
52function will fail if:
53.Bl -tag -width Er
54.It Bq Er EFAULT
55A failure occurred while data transferred to
56the kernel failed.
57.It Bq Er EPERM
58The process does not have sufficient permission to complete
59the operation.
60.El
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr audit 2 ,
63.Xr auditon 2 ,
64.Xr getaudit 2 ,
65.Xr getaudit_addr 2 ,
66.Xr getauid 2 ,
67.Xr setaudit 2 ,
68.Xr setaudit_addr 2 ,
69.Xr libbsm 3
70.Sh HISTORY
71The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
72division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
73It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
74the OpenBSM distribution.
75.Sh AUTHORS
76.An -nosplit
77This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
78of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
79Additional authors include
80.An Wayne Salamon ,
81.An Robert Watson ,
82and SPARTA Inc.
83.Pp
84The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
85stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
86.Pp
87This manual page was written by
88.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .
89