pam_verror(3)

pam_verror3

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Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int

pam_verror(const pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *fmt, va_list ap);

Overview

The pam_verror() function passes its arguments to pam_vprompt(3) with a style argument of PAM_ERROR_MSG, and discards the response.

Return values

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

[PAM_SUCCESS]

Success.

[PAM_BUF_ERR]

Memory buffer error.

[PAM_CONV_ERR]

Conversation 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

The pam_verror() function is an OpenPAM extension.

Authors

The pam_verror() 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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