NAME
pam_strerror —
get PAM standard error message
string
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
const char *
pam_strerror(const
pam_handle_t *pamh, int
error_number);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_strerror()
function returns a pointer to a string containing a textual description of the
error indicated by the error_number argument. The
pamh argument is ignored. For compatibility with other
implementations, it should be either a valid PAM handle returned by a previous
call to
pam_start(3), or NULL.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_strerror() function returns
NULL on failure.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_strerror() 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>.