freebsd-dev/contrib/openbsm/libbsm/au_class.3
Robert Watson ca0716f571 Initial vendor import of the TrustedBSD OpenBSM distribution, version
1.0 alpha 1, an implementation of the documented Sun Basic Security
Module (BSM) Audit API and file format, as well as local extensions to
support the Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems.  Also included are
command line tools for audit trail reduction and conversion to text,
as well as documentation of the commands, file format, and APIs.  This
distribution is the foundation for the TrustedBSD Audit implementation,
and is a pre-release.

This is the first in a series of commits to introduce support for
Common Criteria CAPP security event audit support.

This software has been made possible through the generous
contributions of Apple Computer, Inc., SPARTA, Inc., as well as
members of the TrustedBSD Project, including Wayne Salamon <wsalamon>
and Tom Rhodes <trhodes>.  The original OpenBSM implementation was
created by McAfee Research under contract to Apple Computer, Inc., as
part of their CC CAPP security evaluation.

Many thanks to:	wsalamon, trhodes
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
2006-01-31 19:40:12 +00:00

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.Dd April 19, 2005
.Dt AU_CLASS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm getauclassent ,
.Nm getauclassent_r ,
.Nm getauclassnam ,
.Nm getauclassnam_r ,
.Nm setauclass ,
.Nm endauclass
.Nd "Look up information from the audit_class database"
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libbsm
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In libbsm.h
.Ft struct au_class_ent *
.Fn getauclassent "void"
.Ft struct au_class_ent *
.Fn getauclassent_r "struct au_class_ent *e"
.Ft struct au_class_ent *
.Fn getauclassnam "const char *name"
.Ft struct au_class_ent *
.Fn getauclassnam_r "struct au_class_ent *e" "const char *name"
.Ft void
.Fn setauclass "void"
.Ft void
.Fn endauclass "void"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
These interfaces may be used to look up information from the
.Xr audit_class 5
database, which describes audit event classes.
Audit event classes are described by
.Vt struct au_class_ent .
.Pp
.Pp
.Fn getauclassent
will return the next class found in the
.Xr audit_class 5
database, or the first if the function has not yet been called.
.Dv NULL
will be returned if no further records are available.
.Pp
.Fn getauclassnam
looks up a class by name.
.Dv NULL
will be returned if no matching class can be found.
.Pp
.Fn setauclass
resets the iterator through the
.Xr audit_class 5
database, causing the next call to
.Fn getauclassent
to start again from the beginning of the file.
.Pp
.Fn endauclass
closes the
.Xr audit_class 5
database, if open.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr libbsm 3 ,
.Xr audit_class 5
.Sh 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.
.Pp
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
.Sh 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.
.Sh BUGS
These routines cannot currently distinguish between an entry not being found
and an error accessing the database.
The implementation should be changed to return an error via
.Va errno
when
.Dv NULL
is returned.