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Manual Pages  — PAM_CLOSE_SESSION

NAME

pam_close_session – close an existing user session

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int
pam_close_session(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_close_session() function tears down the user session previously set up by pam_open_session(3).

The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:
PAM_SILENT
  Do not emit any messages.

If any other bits are set, pam_close_session() will return PAM_BAD_CONSTANT.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_close_session() function returns one of the following values:
[PAM_SUCCESS]
  Success.
[PAM_ABORT]
  General failure.
[PAM_BAD_CONSTANT]
  Bad constant.
[PAM_BUF_ERR]
  Memory buffer error.
[PAM_CONV_ERR]
  Conversation failure.
[PAM_PERM_DENIED]
  Permission denied.
[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]
  Error in service module.
[PAM_SESSION_ERR]
  Session failure.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]
  System error.

SEE ALSO

pam(3), pam_open_session(3), pam_strerror(3)

STANDARDS

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

AUTHORS

The pam_close_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.amp; 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 Sm/orgrav <Mt des@des.no>.


PAM_CLOSE_SESSION (3) June 27, 2023

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