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Manual Pages  — PAM_SETENV

NAME

pam_setenv – mirrors setenv(3)

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

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

int
pam_setenv(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *name, const char *value, int overwrite);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_setenv() function sets an environment variable. Its semantics are similar to those of setenv(3), but it modifies the PAM context's environment list instead of the application's.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_setenv() function returns one of the following values:
[PAM_SUCCESS]
  Success.
[PAM_BUF_ERR]
  Memory buffer error.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]
  System error.

SEE ALSO

pam(3), pam_getenv(3), pam_getenvlist(3), pam_putenv(3), pam_strerror(3), setenv(3)

STANDARDS

The pam_setenv() function is an OpenPAM extension.

AUTHORS

The pam_setenv() 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_SETENV (3) June 27, 2023

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