NAME
pam_prompt —
call the conversation
function
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_prompt(const
pam_handle_t *pamh, int
style, char **resp,
const char *fmt,
...);
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_prompt()
function constructs a message from the specified format string and arguments
and passes it to the given PAM context's conversation function.
A pointer to the response, or NULL if the
conversation function did not return one, is stored in the location pointed
to by the resp argument.
See pam_vprompt(3) for further details.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_prompt() 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_info(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_vprompt(3)
STANDARDS
The pam_prompt() function is an OpenPAM
extension.
AUTHORS
The pam_prompt() 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>.