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.
SEE ALSO
pam(3), pam_info(3), pam_prompt(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_verror(3)
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 ⟨[email protected]⟩.