NAME
pam_set_item —
set authentication
information
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_set_item(pam_handle_t
*pamh, int
item_type, const void
*item);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_set_item()
function sets the item specified by the item_type
argument to a copy of the object pointed to by the item
argument. The item is stored in the PAM context specified by the
pamh argument. See
pam_get_item(3) for a list of recognized item types.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_set_item() function returns one of
the following values:
- [
PAM_SUCCESS] - Success.
- [
PAM_BAD_ITEM] - Unrecognized or restricted item.
- [
PAM_BUF_ERR] - Memory buffer error.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_set_item() 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>.