process Token

The process token contains information describing a process as an object such as the recipient of a signal. The fields are:

• A token ID

• The user audit ID

• The effective user ID

• The effective group ID

• The real user ID

• The real group ID

• The process ID

• The session ID

• A terminal ID made up of

  • A device ID

  • A workstation ID

The following figure shows the token format.

Figure B-25 Format for process and subject Tokens

The audit ID, user ID, group ID, process ID, and session ID are long instead of short.

The process token fields for the session ID, the real user ID, or the real group ID may be unavailable. The entry is then set to -1.

A process token is displayed by praudit as follows:

process,root,root,wheel,root,wheel,0,0,0,0.0.0.0