Manual Pages  — PAM_INFO

pam_info – display an information message

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO STANDARDS AUTHORS

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int
pam_info(const pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *fmt, ...);

The pam_info() function displays an informational message through the intermediary of the given PAM context's conversation function.

The pam_info() 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.

The pam_info() function is an OpenPAM extension.

The pam_info() 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>.