Manual Pages  — PAM_OPEN_SESSION

pam_open_session – open a user session

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO STANDARDS AUTHORS

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int
pam_open_session(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

The pam_open_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.

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

The pam_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.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>.