NAME
pam_get_data —
get module information
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_get_data(const
pam_handle_t *pamh, const
char *module_data_name,
const void **data);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_get_data()
function looks up the opaque object associated with the string specified by
the module_data_name argument, in the PAM context
specified by the pamh argument. A pointer to the object
is stored in the location pointed to by the data
argument. If pam_get_data() fails, the
data argument is untouched.
This function and its counterpart pam_set_data(3) are useful for managing data that are meaningful only to a particular service module.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_get_data() function returns one of
the following values:
- [
PAM_SUCCESS] - Success.
- [
PAM_NO_MODULE_DATA] - Module data not found.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_get_data() 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>.