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Manual Pages  — PAM_VINFO

NAME

pam_vinfo – display an information message

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

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

int
pam_vinfo(const pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *fmt, va_list ap);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_vinfo() function passes its arguments to pam_vprompt(3) with a style argument of PAM_TEXT_INFO, and discards the response.

RETURN VALUES

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

SEE ALSO

pam(3), pam_info(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_verror(3), pam_vprompt(3)

STANDARDS

The pam_vinfo() function is an OpenPAM extension.

AUTHORS

The pam_vinfo() 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_VINFO (3) February 24, 2019

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