Manual Pages  — PAM_SM_AUTHENTICATE

pam_sm_authenticate – service module implementation for pam_authenticate

SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES SEE ALSO STANDARDS AUTHORS

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <security/pam_appl.h>

#include <security/pam_modules.h>

int
pam_sm_authenticate(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc, const char **argv);

The pam_sm_authenticate() function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_SUCCESS]
	Success.
[PAM_ABORT]
	General failure.
[PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL]
	Authentication information is unavailable.
[PAM_AUTH_ERR]
	Authentication error.
[PAM_BUF_ERR]
	Memory buffer error.
[PAM_CONV_ERR]
	Conversation failure.
[PAM_CRED_INSUFFICIENT]
	Insufficient credentials.
[PAM_IGNORE]
	Ignore this module.
[PAM_MAXTRIES]
	Maximum number of tries exceeded.
[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_sm_authenticate() 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>.