ipc_perm Token

The ipc_perm token contains a copy of the System V IPC access information. Audit records for shared memory, semaphore, and message IPCs have this token added. The fields are:

• A token ID

• The IPC owner's user ID

• The IPC owner's group ID

• The IPC creator's user ID

• The IPC creator's group ID

• The IPC access modes

• The IPC sequence number

• The IPC key value

The values are taken from the ipc_perm structure associated with the IPC object. The following figure shows the token format.

Figure B–17 ipc_perm Token Format

An ipc_perm token is displayed by praudit as follows:

IPC_perm,root,wheel,root,wheel,0,0,0x00000000