NAME
pam_getenv —
retrieve the value of a PAM environment
variable
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
const char *
pam_getenv(pam_handle_t
*pamh, const char
*name);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_getenv()
function returns the value of an environment variable. Its semantics are
similar to those of
getenv(3), but it accesses the PAM context's environment list instead
of the application's.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_getenv() function returns
NULL on failure.
SEE ALSO
getenv(3), pam(3), pam_getenvlist(3), pam_putenv(3), pam_setenv(3)
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_getenv() 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>.