pam_end(3)

pam_end3

Terminate the pam transaction

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int

pam_end(pam_handle_t *pamh, int status);

Library

library “libpam”

Overview

The pam_end function terminates a PAM transaction and destroys the corresponding PAM context, releasing all resources allocated to it.

The status argument should be set to the error code returned by the last API call before the call to pam_end

Return values

The pam_end function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]

System error.

Releases

115 releases since Mac OS X 10.5; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10.5–10.5.8
  2. 10.6–26.5

Standards

X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.

Authors

The pam_end 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.