Manual Pages  — PAM_SETCRED

pam_setcred – modify / delete user credentials for an authentication service

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO STANDARDS AUTHORS

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

int
pam_setcred(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

The pam_setcred() function manages the application's credentials.

The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:

PAM_SILENT
	Do not emit any messages.
PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED
	Establish the credentials of the target user.
PAM_DELETE_CRED
	Revoke all established credentials.
PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED
	Fully reinitialise credentials.
PAM_REFRESH_CRED
	Refresh credentials.

The latter four are mutually exclusive.

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

The pam_setcred() 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_CRED_ERR]
	Failed to set user credentials.
[PAM_CRED_EXPIRED]
	User credentials have expired.
[PAM_CRED_UNAVAIL]
	Failed to retrieve user credentials.
[PAM_PERM_DENIED]
	Permission denied.
[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]
	Error in service module.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]
	System error.
[PAM_USER_UNKNOWN]
	Unknown user.

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

The pam_setcred() 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>.