NAME

au_preselect, getauditflagsbin, getauditflagschar —

convert between string and numeric values of audit masks

LIBRARY

Basic Security Module Library (libbsm, -lbsm)

SYNOPSIS

#include <bsm/libbsm.h>

int
au_preselect(au_event_t event, au_mask_t *mask_p, int sorf, int flag);

int
getauditflagsbin(char *auditstr, au_mask_t *masks);

int
getauditflagschar(char *auditstr, au_mask_t *masks, int verbose);

DESCRIPTION

These interfaces support processing of an audit mask represented by type au_mask_t, including conversion between numeric and text formats, and computing whether or not an event is matched by a mask.

The au_preselect() function calculates whether or not the audit event passed via event is matched by the audit mask passed via mask_p. The sorf argument indicates whether or not to consider the event as a success, if the AU_PRS_SUCCESS flag is set, or failure, if the AU_PRS_FAILURE flag is set. The flag argument accepts additional arguments influencing the behavior of au_preselect(), including AU_PRS_REREAD, which causes the event to be re-looked up rather than read from the cache, or AU_PRS_USECACHE which forces use of the cache.

The getauditflagsbin() function converts a string representation of an audit mask passed via a character string pointed to by auditstr, returning the resulting mask, if valid, via *masks.

The getauditflagschar() function converts the audit event mask passed via *masks and converts it to a character string in a buffer pointed to by auditstr. See the BUGS section for more information on how to provide a buffer of sufficient size. If the verbose flag is set, the class description string retrieved from audit_class(5) will be used; otherwise, the two-character class name.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

The au_preselect() function makes implicit use of various audit database routines, and may influence the behavior of simultaneous or interleaved processing of those databases by other code.

RETURN VALUES

The au_preselect() function returns 0 on success, or returns -1 if there is a failure looking up the event type or other database access, in which case errno will be set to indicate the error. It returns 1 if the event is matched; 0 if not.

The getauditflagsbin() and getauditflagschar() functions return the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

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 Robert Watson, Wayne Salamon, and Suresh Krishnaswamy for McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer, Inc.

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

BUGS

The errno variable may not always be properly set in the event of an error.

The getauditflagschar() function does not provide a way to indicate how long the character buffer is, in order to detect overflow. As a result, the caller must always provide a buffer of sufficient length for any possible mask, which may be calculated as three times the number of non-zero bits in the mask argument in the event non-verbose class names are used, and is not trivially predictable for verbose class names. This API should be replaced with a more robust one.