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NAME
pam_setcred —
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_setcred(pam_handle_t
*pamh, int
flags);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_setcred() function manages the application's
credentials.
The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:
PAM_SILENT- Do not emit any messages.
PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED- Establish the credentials of the target user.
PAM_DELETE_CRED- Revoke all established credentials.
PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED- Fully reinitialise credentials.
PAM_REFRESH_CRED- Refresh credentials.
The latter four are mutually exclusive.
If any other bits are set, pam_setcred()
will return PAM_BAD_CONSTANT.
RETURN VALUES
Thepam_setcred() 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_CRED_ERR] - Failed to set user credentials.
- [
PAM_CRED_EXPIRED] - User credentials have expired.
- [
PAM_CRED_UNAVAIL] - Failed to retrieve user credentials.
- [
PAM_PERM_DENIED] - Permission denied.
- [
PAM_SERVICE_ERR] - Error in service module.
- [
PAM_SYSTEM_ERR] - System error.
- [
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN] - Unknown user.
SEE ALSO
pam(3), pam_strerror(3)STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.AUTHORS
Thepam_setcred() 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>.
| February 24, 2019 | FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE |
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