NAME
pam_info
—
display an information
message
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_info
(const
pam_handle_t *pamh, const
char *fmt,
...);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_info
()
function displays an informational message through the intermediary of the
given PAM context's conversation function.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_info
() 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_error(3), pam_prompt(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_vinfo(3)
STANDARDS
The pam_info
() function is an OpenPAM
extension.
AUTHORS
The pam_info
() 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>.