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, ...);

Library

library “libpam”

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_BUF_ERR]

Memory buffer error.

[PAM_CONV_ERR]

Conversation failure.

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]

System error.

Releases

Unchanged in 106 releases since Mac OS X 10.6.

  1. 10.6–26.5

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.

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