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23 .Dd July 30, 2007
24 .Dt SETAUID 2
25 .Os Darwin
26 .Sh NAME
27 .Nm setauid
28 .Nd set the audit user ID for the calling process
29 .Sh SYNOPSIS
30 .Fd #include <bsm/audit.h>
31 .Ft int
32 .Fn setauid "const au_id_t * auid"
33 .Sh DESCRIPTION
34 The
35 .Fn setauid
36 function sets the audit user ID for the calling process. The ID is set to the
37 value pointed at by
38 .Fa auid .
39 .Sh RETURN VALUES
40 Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned.
41 Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
42 .Va errno
43 is set to indicate the error.
44 .Sh SEE ALSO
45 .Xr audit 2 ,
46 .Xr auditon 2 ,
47 .Xr auditctl 2 ,
48 .Xr getauid 2 ,
49 .Xr getaudit 2 ,
50 .Xr setaudit 2
51 .Sh HISTORY
52 The
53 .Fn setauid
54 function call first appeared in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).