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-.Dd July 30, 2007
+.Dd March 21, 2009
 .Dt SETAUID 2
-.Os Darwin
+.Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm setauid
-.Nd set the audit user ID for the calling process
+.Nd "set audit indentifier"
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Fd #include <bsm/audit.h>
+.In bsm/audit.h
 .Ft int
-.Fn setauid "const au_id_t * auid"
+.Fn setauid "au_id_t *auid"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn setauid
-function sets the audit user ID for the calling process. The ID is set to the 
-value pointed at by 
+system call
+sets the active audit identifier for the current process from the
+.Vt au_id_t
+pointed to by
 .Fa auid .
+The value of AU_DEFAUDITID (-1) should not be used for 
+.Fa auid .
+.Pp
+This system call requires an appropriate privilege to complete.
+.Pp
+Once the audit identifier is set to some other value than
+AU_DEAUDITID (-1) then it is immutable.
+This system call may be used to set the audit identifier after 
+initially setting up the audit session with the 
+.Xr setaudit 2 ,
+or 
+.Xr setaudit_addr 2 
+system call.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
-Upon successful completion a value of 0 is returned.
-Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
-.Va errno
-is set to indicate the error.
+.Rv -std
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn setauid
+function will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+A failure occurred while data transferred to
+the kernel failed.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+An invalid value for 
+.Fa auid
+was used.
+.Fa auid
+can be any value of type 
+.Vt au_id_t
+except AU_DEFAUDITID.
+.It Bq Er EPERM
+The process does not have sufficient permission to complete
+the operation.
+.El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr audit 2 ,
 .Xr auditon 2 ,
-.Xr auditctl 2 ,
-.Xr getauid 2 ,
 .Xr getaudit 2 ,
-.Xr setaudit 2
+.Xr getaudit_addr 2 ,
+.Xr getauid 2 ,
+.Xr setaudit 2 ,
+.Xr setaudit_addr 2 ,
+.Xr libbsm 3
 .Sh HISTORY
-The
-.Fn setauid
-function call first appeared in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).
+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 AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
+This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
+of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
+Additional authors include
+.An Wayne Salamon ,
+.An Robert Watson ,
+and SPARTA Inc.
+.Pp
+The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
+stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
+.Pp
+This manual page was written by
+.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org
+and
+.An Stacey Son Aq sson@FreeBSD.org .