NAME

pam_open_session —

open a user session

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_BAD_CONSTANT.

RETURN VALUES

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

[PAM_SUCCESS]: Success.
[PAM_ABORT]: General failure.
[PAM_BAD_CONSTANT]: Bad constant.
[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_SYSTEM_ERR]: System error.

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>.