AUDIT_SUBMIT(3)

NAME
audit_submit - general purpose audit record submission

LIBRARY
libbsm

SYNOPSIS
#include <bsm/libbsm.h>
int
audit_submit(short au_event, au_id_t auid, char status, int reterr, const char * restrict format, ...);

DESCRIPTION
The audit_submit() function provides a generic programming interface for audit record submission. This audit record will contain a header, subject token, an optional text token, return token, and a trailer. The header will contain the event class specified by au_event. The subject token will be generated based on auid. The return token is dependent on the status and reterr arguments; unlike the argument to au_to_return, reterr should be a local rather than BSM error number. Optionally, a text token will be created as a part of this record.

Text token output is under the control of a format string that specifies how subsequent arguments (or arguments accessed via the variable-length argument facilities of stdarg(3)) are converted for output. If format is NULL, then no text token is created in the audit record.

It should be noted that audit_submit() assumes that setaudit(2), or setaudit_addr(2) has already been called. As a direct result, the terminal ID for the subject will be retrieved from the kernel via getaudit(2), or getaudit_addr(2).

RETURN VALUES
If successful, audit_submit will return zero. Otherwise a -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

EXAMPLES

    #include <bsm/audit.h>
    #include <bsm/libbsm.h>
    #include <bsm/audit_uevents.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdarg.h>
    #include <errno.h>
    void
    audit_bad_su(char *from_login, char *to_login)
    {
    	struct auditinfo_addr aia;
    	struct auditinfo ai;
    	au_id_t aid;
    	int error;
    	error = getaudit_addr(&aia, sizeof(aia));
    	if (error < 0 && errno == ENOSYS) {
    		error = getaudit(&ai);
    		if (error < 0)
    			err(1, "getaudit");
    		aid = ai.ai_auid;
    	} else if (error < 0)
    		err(1, "getaudit_addr");
    	else
    		aid = aia.ai_auid;
    	error = audit_submit(AUE_su, aid, EPERM, 1,
    	    "bad su from %s to %s", from_login, to_login);
    	if (error != 0)
    		err(1, "audit_submit");
    }

Will generate the following audit record:

    header,94,1,su(1),0,Mon Apr 17 23:23:59 2006, + 271 msec
    subject,root,root,wheel,root,wheel,652,652,0,0.0.0.0
    text,bad su from from csjp to root
    return,failure : Operation not permitted,1
    trailer,94

SEE ALSO
auditon(2), getaudit(2), libbsm(3), stdarg(3)

HISTORY
The audit_submit() function first appeared in OpenBSM version 1.0. OpenBSM 1.0 was introduced in FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
The audit_submit() function was written by Christian S.J. Peron <csjp@FreeBSD.org>.