NAME

pam_open_session — open a user session

LIBRARY

Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)

SYNOPSIS

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

int
pam_open_session(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_open_session() sets up a user session for a previously authenticated user. The session should later be torn down by a call to pam_close_session(3).

The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:

PAM_SILENT

Do not emit any messages.

If any other bits are set, pam_open_session() will return PAM_SYMBOL_ERR.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_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_PERM_DENIED]

Permission denied.

[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]

Error in service module.

[PAM_SESSION_ERR]

Session failure.

[PAM_SYMBOL_ERR]

Invalid symbol.

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]

System error.

SEE ALSO

pam(3), pam_close_session(3), pam_strerror(3)

STANDARDS

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

AUTHORS

The pam_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>.