pam_setenv(3)

pam_setenv3

Mirrors setenv(3)

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int

pam_setenv(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite);

Library

library “libpam”

Overview

The pam_setenv function sets a environment variable. Its semantics are similar to those of setenv(3), but it modifies the PAM context's environment list instead of the application's.

Return values

The pam_setenv function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_BUF_ERR]

Memory buffer error.

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]

System error.

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

The pam_setenv function is an OpenPAM extension.

Authors

The pam_setenv 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.