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GETAUID(2)                                 BSD System Calls Manual                                GETAUID(2)

NAME
     getauid -- retrieve audit session ID

SYNOPSIS
     #include <bsm/audit.h>

     int
     getauid(au_id_t *auid);

DESCRIPTION
     The getauid() system call retrieves the active audit session ID for the current process via the au_id_t
     pointed to by auid.

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 getauid() function will fail if:

     [EFAULT]           A failure occurred while data transferred from the kernel failed.

SEE ALSO
     audit(2), auditon(2), getaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), setaudit(2), setaudit_addr(2), setauid(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>.

BSD                                             March 5, 2009                                            BSD