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SETAUID(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual SETAUID(2)
NAME
setauid - set audit session ID
SYNOPSIS
#include <bsm/audit.h>
int
setauid(au_id_t *auid);
DESCRIPTION
The setauid() system call sets the active audit session ID for the
current process from the au_id_t pointed to by auid.
This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The setauid() function will fail if:
[EFAULT] A failure occurred while data transferred to the
kernel failed.
[EPERM] The process does not have sufficient permission to
complete the operation.
SEE ALSO
audit(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), getauid(2),
setaudit(2), setaudit_addr(2), 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
This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research
division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, 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 Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 April 19, 2005 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6