NAME

pam_error — display an error message

LIBRARY

Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)

SYNOPSIS

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

int
pam_error(const pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *fmt, ...);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_error() function displays an error message through the intermediary of the given PAM context's conversation function.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_error() function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_BUF_ERR]

Memory buffer error.

[PAM_CONV_ERR]

Conversation failure.

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]

System error.

SEE ALSO

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

STANDARDS

The pam_error() function is an OpenPAM extension.

AUTHORS

The pam_error() 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>.