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PAM_SM_OPEN_SESSION(3) Library Functions Manual PAM_SM_OPEN_SESSION(3)

NAME

pam_sm_open_sessionservice module implementation for pam_open_session

LIBRARY

Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)

SYNOPSIS

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

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

DESCRIPTION

The pam_sm_open_session() function is the service module's implementation of the pam_open_session(3) API function.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_sm_open_session() function returns one of the following values:
[PAM_ABORT]
General failure.
[PAM_BUF_ERR]
Memory buffer error.
[PAM_CONV_ERR]
Conversation failure.
[PAM_IGNORE]
Ignore this module.
[PAM_PERM_DENIED]
Permission denied.
[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]
Error in service module.
[PAM_SESSION_ERR]
Session failure.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]
System error.

STANDARDS

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

AUTHORS

The pam_sm_open_session() 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. 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 Smørgrav <des@des.no>.

September 12, 2014 NetBSD 7.0