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libbsm – Basic Security Module (BSM) Audit API

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION INTERFACES Audit Event Stream Interfaces Audit Class Interfaces Audit Control Interfaces Audit Event Interfaces Audit I/O Interfaces Audit Mask Interfaces Audit Notification Interfaces Audit Token Interface Audit User Interfaces Audit Constant Conversion Interfaces SEE ALSO HISTORY AUTHORS BUGS

Basic Security Module User Library (libbsm, -lbsm)

#include <bsm/libbsm.h>

The libbsm library routines provide an interface to BSM audit record streams, allowing both the parsing of existing audit streams, as well as the creation of new audit records and streams.

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.

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 would not be unlikely.

The libbsm library implementations are generally thread-safe, but not reentrant.

The assignment of routines to classes could use some work, as it is decidely ad hoc. For example, au_read_rec() should probably be considered a stream routine.