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110b5fe87SSascha Wildner.\" Generated from pam_strerror.c by gendoc.pl
210b5fe87SSascha Wildner.\" $OpenPAM: pam_strerror.c 938 2017-04-30 21:34:42Z des $
3*4c84ab30SSascha Wildner.Dd February 24, 2019
4ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Dt PAM_STRERROR 3
5ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Os
6ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh NAME
7ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Nm pam_strerror
8ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Nd get PAM standard error message string
9ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh SYNOPSIS
10ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.In sys/types.h
11ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.In security/pam_appl.h
12ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Ft "const char *"
13f23594ceSHasso Tepper.Fn pam_strerror "const pam_handle_t *pamh" "int error_number"
14ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh DESCRIPTION
15ade90846SJoerg SonnenbergerThe
16577efdeeSPeter Avalos.Fn pam_strerror
17ade90846SJoerg Sonnenbergerfunction returns a pointer to a string containing a
18ade90846SJoerg Sonnenbergertextual description of the error indicated by the
19ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Fa error_number
20ade90846SJoerg Sonnenbergerargument.
21a474e9feSPeter AvalosThe
22a474e9feSPeter Avalos.Fa pamh
23a474e9feSPeter Avalosargument is ignored.
24a474e9feSPeter AvalosFor compatibility with other implementations, it should be either a
25a474e9feSPeter Avalosvalid PAM handle returned by a previous call to
26a474e9feSPeter Avalos.Xr pam_start 3 ,
27a474e9feSPeter Avalosor
28a474e9feSPeter Avalos.Dv NULL .
29ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh RETURN VALUES
30ade90846SJoerg SonnenbergerThe
31577efdeeSPeter Avalos.Fn pam_strerror
32ade90846SJoerg Sonnenbergerfunction returns
33ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Dv NULL
34ade90846SJoerg Sonnenbergeron failure.
35ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh SEE ALSO
36a474e9feSPeter Avalos.Xr pam 3 ,
37a474e9feSPeter Avalos.Xr pam_start 3
38ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh STANDARDS
39ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Rs
40ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules"
41ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.%D "June 1997"
42ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Re
43ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Sh AUTHORS
44ade90846SJoerg SonnenbergerThe
45577efdeeSPeter Avalos.Fn pam_strerror
46577efdeeSPeter Avalosfunction and this manual page were
47577efdeeSPeter Avalosdeveloped for the
48ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Fx
49577efdeeSPeter AvalosProject by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
50f23594ceSHasso TepperSecurity Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under
51ade90846SJoerg SonnenbergerDARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
52ade90846SJoerg Sonnenberger.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
53ade90846SJoerg Sonnenbergeras part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
5410b5fe87SSascha Wildner.Pp
5510b5fe87SSascha WildnerThe OpenPAM library is maintained by
5610b5fe87SSascha Wildner.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq Mt des@des.no .
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