PAM_STRERROR(3) |
Library Functions Manual |
PAM_STRERROR(3) |
NAME
pam_strerror — get PAM standard error message string
LIBRARY
Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)
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.
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>.