AUDIT_SET_ENABLED(3)

💖 AUDIT_SET_ENABLED 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Linux Audit API (section 3 of the manual, iykyk) and it's all about the one little function that flips the whole audit system on and off. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

audit_set_enabled — the function that turns auditing on or off, like a light switch but for your kernel's whole surveillance era 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <libaudit.h>

int audit_set_enabled(int fd, uint32_t enabled);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so audit_set_enabled is literally the vibe check for the entire audit system — it controls whether the audit system is active or not, periodt.

when the audit system is enabled (enabled set to 1), it's giving full main character energy: every single syscall will pass through the audit system so it can collect information and potentially trigger an event. every one. no syscall gets to sneak past. 👑

when the audit system is disabled (enabled set to 0), syscalls do not enter the audit system and no data is collected. it's quiet. it's peaceful. it's a digital nap. 😴

💀 but wait — plot twist — there may still be some events generated by MAC subsystems like SE Linux even though the audit system is disabled. not me being off and them still showing up uninvited 🙈

the good news? it is possible to suppress those events too, by adding an audit rule with flags set to AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE. slay. problem solved. 💅

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

the return value is <= 0 on error — so zero or anything negative means something went wrong, bestie 😭

otherwise, it's the netlink sequence id number. and heads up: this function can have any error that sendto would encounter, so don't come for the error list, it's the same energy as sendto. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• audit_add_rule_data(3)
• auditd(8)

go read those too, they're part of the lore 📚

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Steve Grubb — the icon, the legend, the moment ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came out of the Linux Audit API corner of the world, courtesy of Red Hat, dated October 2006 — yes, 2006, we love a vintage baddie 🎀 — and it lives in section 3 of the manual as AUDIT_SET_ENABLED. stan a classic. bye pookie, go enable your auditing responsibly 💖🦋🌸