openpam_free_data(3)

openpam_free_data3

Generic cleanup function

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

#include <security/openpam.h>

void

openpam_free_data(pam_handle_t *pamh, void *data, int status);

Overview

The openpam_free_data() function is a cleanup function suitable for passing to pam_set_data(3). It simply releases the data by passing its data argument to free(3).

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 15 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 5.1
  3. 5.2–5.2.1
  4. 5.3–5.5
  5. 6.0–6.3
  6. 6.4
  7. 7.0
  8. 7.1–9.1
  9. 9.2
  10. 9.3–10.0
  11. 10.1–11.2
  12. 11.3–11.4
  13. 12.0–12.2
  14. 12.3–13.2
  15. 13.3–14.5
  16. 15.0–16.0

Standards

The openpam_free_data() function is an OpenPAM extension.

Authors

The openpam_free_data() function and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

The OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smørgrav ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.