NAME

pam_prompt — call the conversation function

LIBRARY

Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)

SYNOPSIS

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

int
pam_prompt(const pam_handle_t *pamh, int style, char **resp, const char *fmt, ...);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_prompt() function constructs a message from the specified format string and arguments and passes it to the given PAM context's conversation function.

A pointer to the response, or NULL if the conversation function did not return one, is stored in the location pointed to by the resp argument.

See pam_vprompt(3) for further details.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_prompt() 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_error(3), pam_info(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_vprompt(3)

STANDARDS

The pam_prompt() function is an OpenPAM extension.

AUTHORS

The pam_prompt() 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>.