pam_error(3)

pam_error3

Display an error message

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int

pam_error(const pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *fmt, ...);

Overview

The pam_error() function displays an error message through the intermediary of the given PAM context's conversation function.

Return values

The pam_error() function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_SUCCESS]

Success.

[PAM_BUF_ERR]

Memory buffer error.

[PAM_CONV_ERR]

Conversation failure.

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]

System error.

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 pam_error() function is an OpenPAM extension.

Authors

The pam_error() 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.