NAME
pam_strerror —
get PAM standard error
message string
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
const char *
pam_strerror(
const
pam_handle_t *pamh,
int
error_number);
DESCRIPTION
The
pam_strerror() function returns a pointer to a string
containing a textual description of the error indicated by the
error_number argument in the context of the PAM
transaction described by the
pamh. The
pamh argument is ignored. For compatibility with other
implementations, it should be either a valid PAM handle returned by a previous
call to
pam_start(3), or
NULL
.
RETURN VALUES
The
pam_strerror() function returns
NULL
on failure.
SEE ALSO
pam(3),
pam_start(3)
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) -
Pluggable Authentication Modules, June
1997.
AUTHORS
The
pam_strerror() 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>.