NAME
pam_close_session —
close an existing user
session
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_close_session(pam_handle_t
*pamh, int
flags);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_close_session()
function tears down the user session previously set up by
pam_open_session(3).
The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:
PAM_SILENT- Do not emit any messages.
If any other bits are set,
pam_close_session()
will return PAM_BAD_CONSTANT.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_close_session() function returns
one of the following values:
- [
PAM_SUCCESS] - Success.
- [
PAM_ABORT] - General failure.
- [
PAM_BAD_CONSTANT] - Bad constant.
- [
PAM_BUF_ERR] - Memory buffer error.
- [
PAM_CONV_ERR] - Conversation failure.
- [
PAM_PERM_DENIED] - Permission denied.
- [
PAM_SERVICE_ERR] - Error in service module.
- [
PAM_SESSION_ERR] - Session failure.
- [
PAM_SYSTEM_ERR] - System error.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_close_session() 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>.