Linker and Libraries Guide

Invoking the Auditing Interface

The rtld-audit interface is enabled by one of two means. Each method implies a scope to the objects that are audited.

Both methods of defining auditors employ a string consisting of a colon-separated list of shared objects that are loaded by dlmopen(3C). Each object is loaded onto its own audit link-map list. Each object is searched for audit routines using dlsym(3C). Audit routines that are found are called at various stages during the applications execution.

Secure applications can only obtain audit libraries from trusted directories. By default, the only trusted directories that are known to the runtime linker for 32–bit objects are/lib/secure and /usr/lib/secure. For 64–bit objects, the trusted directories are /lib/secure/64 and /usr/lib/secure/64.


Note –

Auditing can be disabled at runtime by setting the environment variable LD_NOAUDIT to a non-null value.