NAME
pam_set_data —
set module information
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_set_data(pam_handle_t
*pamh, const char
*module_data_name, void
*data, void
(*cleanup)(pam_handle_t *pamh, void *data, int pam_end_status));
DESCRIPTION
Thepam_set_data()
function associates a pointer to an opaque object with an arbitrary string
specified by the module_data_name argument, in the PAM
context specified by the pamh argument.
If not NULL, the
cleanup argument should point to a function
responsible for releasing the resources associated with the object.
This function and its counterpart pam_get_data(3) are useful for managing data that are meaningful only to a particular service module.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_set_data() function returns one of
the following values:
- [
PAM_SUCCESS] - Success.
- [
PAM_BUF_ERR] - Memory buffer error.
- [
PAM_SYSTEM_ERR] - System error.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_set_data() 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>.