pam_getenv(3)

pam_getenv3

Retrieve the value of a pam environment variable

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

const char *

pam_getenv(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *name);

Library

library “libpam”

Overview

The pam_getenv function returns the value of an environment variable. Its semantics are similar to those of getenv(3), but it accesses the PAM context's environment list instead of the application's.

Return values

The pam_getenv function returns NULL on failure.

Releases

106 releases since Mac OS X 10.6; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10.6–10.6.8
  2. 10.7–26.5

Standards

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

Authors

The pam_getenv 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.