openpam_nullconv(3)

openpam_nullconv3

Null conversation function

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

#include <security/openpam.h>

int

openpam_nullconv(int n, const struct pam_message **msg, struct pam_response **resp, void *data);

Library

library “libpam”

Overview

The openpam_nullconv function is a null conversation function suitable for applications that want to use PAM but don't support interactive dialog with the user. Such applications should set PAM_AUTHTOK to whatever authentication token they've obtained on their own before calling pam_authenticate(3) and / or pam_chauthtok(3), and their PAM configuration should specify the use_first_pass option for all modules that require access to the authentication token, to make sure they use PAM_AUTHTOK rather than try to query the user.

Return values

The openpam_nullconv function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_CONV_ERR]

Conversation failure.

Releases

Unchanged in 106 releases since Mac OS X 10.6.

  1. 10.6–26.5

Standards

The openpam_nullconv function is an OpenPAM extension.

Authors

The openpam_nullconv 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.

From OpenPAM 35 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.