Appendix B BSM Reference

BSM brings a number of additional utilities to the Solaris operating environment. The utilities are listed here in four sections, each of which has a table below. Each table gives utility names and a short description of the task performed by each utility. The sections are identified by the man page suffix.

Table B-1 Section 1M-Maintenance Commands


Command	Task
allocate(1M)	Allocate a device
audit(1M)	Control the audit daemon
audit_startup(1M)	Initialize the audit subsystem
audit_warn(1M)	Run the audit daemon warning script
auditconfig(1M)	Configure auditing
auditd(1M)	Control audit trail files
auditreduce(1M)	Merge and select audit records from audit trail files
auditstat(1M)	Display kernel audit statistics
bsmconv(1M)	Enable a Solaris system to use the Basic Security Module
bsmunconv(1M)	Disable the Basic Security Module and return to the Solaris operating environment (see the bsmconv(1M) man page)
deallocate(1M)	Deallocate a device
dminfo(1M)	Report information about a device entry in a device maps file
list_devices(1M)	List allocatable devices
praudit(1M)	Print contents of an audit trail file

Table B-2 Section 2-System Calls


System Call	Task
audit(2)	Write a record to the audit log
auditon(2)	Manipulate auditing
auditsvc(2)	Write audit log to specified file descriptor
getaudit(2)	Get process audit information
getauid(2)	Get user audit identity
setaudit(2)	Get process audit information (see getaudit(2))
setauid(2)	Get user audit identity (see getauid(2))

Table B-3 Section 3-C Library Functions


Library Call	Task
au_open(3), au_close(3), au_write(3)	Construct and write audit records
au_preselect(3)	Preselect an audit event
au_to_arg(3), au_to_attr(3), au_to_data(3), au_to_groups(3), au_to_in_addr(3), au_to_ipc(3), au_to_ipc_perm(3), au_to_iport(3), au_to_me(3), au_to_opaque(3), au_to_path(3), au_to_process(3), au_to_return(3), au_to_socket(3), au_to_text(3)	Create audit record tokens (see au_to(3) for all of these functions)
au_user_mask(3)	Get user's binary preselection mask
getacinfo(3), getacdir(3), getacflg(3), getacmin(3), getacna(3), setac(3), endac(3)	Get audit control file information
getauclassent(3), getauclassnam(3), setauclass(3), endauclass(3), getauclassnam_r(3), getauclassent_r(3)	Get `audit_class` entry
getauditflags(3),getauditflagsbin(3), getauditflagschar(3)	Convert audit flag specifications
getauevent(3), getauevnam(3), getauevnum(3), getauevnonam(3), setauevent(3), endauevent(3), getauevent_r(3), getauevnam_r(3), getauevnum_r(3)	Get `audit_user` entry
getauusernam(3), getauuserent(3), setauuser(3), endauuser(3)	Get `audit_user` entry
getfauditflags(3)	Generate the process audit state

Table B-4 Section 4-Headers, Tables, and Macros


Files	Task
audit.log(4)	Gives format for an audit trail file
audit_class(4)	Gives audit class definitions
audit_control(4)	Controls information for system audit daemon
audit_data(4)	Holds current information on the audit daemon
audit_event(4)	Holds audit event definition and class mapping
audit_user(4)	Holds per-user auditing data file
device_allocate(4)	Contains physical device information
device_maps(4)	Contains physical device information