iscsi_session_password_get(3)

iscsi_session_password_get3

Retrieve authentication password of specified session.

Usage

const char * iscsi_session_password_get (struct iscsi_session *se);

Arguments

se

Pointer of 'struct iscsi_session'. If this pointer is NULL, your program will be terminated by assert.

Overview

Retrieve the authentication password of specified iSCSI session. Currently open-iscsi only support CHAP authentication method. It's controlled this setting in iscsid.conf:

Return

const char *. Empty string if not using CHAP authentication or failed to read authentication information. No need to free this memory, the resources will get freed by iscsi_session_free or iscsi_sessions_free.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From open-iscsi 2.1.13-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.