NAME

pam_error —

display an error message

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_SUCCESS]: Success.
[PAM_BUF_ERR]: Memory buffer error.
[PAM_CONV_ERR]: Conversation failure.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]: System error.

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>.