pam_sm_open_session(3)

pam_sm_open_session3

Service module implementation for pam_open_session

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

#include <security/pam_modules.h>

int

pam_sm_open_session(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc, const char **argv);

Overview

The pam_sm_open_session() function is the service module's implementation of the pam_open_session(3) API function.

Return values

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

[PAM_SUCCESS]

Success.

[PAM_ABORT]

General failure.

[PAM_BUF_ERR]

Memory buffer error.

[PAM_CONV_ERR]

Conversation failure.

[PAM_IGNORE]

Ignore this module.

[PAM_PERM_DENIED]

Permission denied.

[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]

Error in service module.

[PAM_SESSION_ERR]

Session 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

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

Authors

The pam_sm_open_session() 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]⟩.

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