setauid (2)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man2/setauid.2freebsd".)

NAME

setauid - set audit session ID

SYNOPSIS

In bsm/audit.h Ft int Fn setauid au_id_t *auid

DESCRIPTION

The Fn setauid system call sets the active audit session ID for the current process from the Vt au_id_t pointed to by Fa auid .

This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.

RETURN VALUES

Rv -std

ERRORS

The Fn setauid function will fail if:

Bq Er EFAULT

A failure occurred while data transferred to the kernel failed.

Bq Er EPERM

The process does not have sufficient permission to complete the operation.

SEE ALSO

audit(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr2, getauid(2), setaudit(2), setaudit_addr2, libbsm(3)

HISTORY

The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004. It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for the OpenBSM distribution.

AUTHORS

An -nosplit This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional authors include An Wayne Salamon , An Robert Watson , and SPARTA Inc.

The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.

This manual page was written by An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .