pam_misc_drop_env(3)

pam_misc_drop_env3

Liberating a locally saved environment

Usage

#include <security/pam_misc.h>

int pam_misc_drop_env(char **env);

Overview

This function is defined to complement the pam_getenvlist(3) function. It liberates the memory associated with env, overwriting with 0 all memory before free()ing it.

Releases

13 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8–9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

Standards

The pam_misc_drop_env function is part of the libpam_misc Library and not defined in any standard.

From pam 1.7.3-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.