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Manual Pages  — PAM_SM_SETCRED

NAME

pam_sm_setcred – service module implementation for pam_setcred

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

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

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

DESCRIPTION

The pam_sm_setcred() function is the service module's implementation of the pam_setcred(3) API function.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_sm_setcred() function returns one of the following values:
[PAM_SUCCESS]
  Success.
[PAM_ABORT]
  General failure.
[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_IGNORE]
  Ignore this module.
[PAM_PERM_DENIED]
  Permission denied.
[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]
  Error in service module.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]
  System error.
[PAM_USER_UNKNOWN]
  Unknown user.

SEE ALSO

pam(3), pam_setcred(3), pam_strerror(3)

STANDARDS

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

AUTHORS

The pam_sm_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>.


PAM_SM_SETCRED (3) February 24, 2019

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