pam_strerror(3)

pam_strerror3

Get pam standard error message string

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

const char *

pam_strerror(const pam_handle_t *pamh, int error_number);

Library

library “libpam”

Overview

The pam_strerror function returns a pointer to a string containing a textual description of the error indicated by the error_number argument, in the context of the PAM transaction described by the pamh argument.

Return values

The pam_strerror function returns NULL on failure.

Releases

155 releases since Mac OS X 10.2; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10.2–10.5.8
  2. 10.6–26.5

Standards

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

Authors

The pam_strerror 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.