1.\" $NetBSD: pam_error.3,v 1.6 2014/10/24 18:25:14 christos Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Generated from pam_error.c by gendoc.pl 4.\" Id: pam_error.c 648 2013-03-05 17:54:27Z des 5.Dd September 12, 2014 6.Dt PAM_ERROR 3 7.Os 8.Sh NAME 9.Nm pam_error 10.Nd display an error message 11.Sh LIBRARY 12.Lb libpam 13.Sh SYNOPSIS 14.In sys/types.h 15.In security/pam_appl.h 16.Ft "int" 17.Fn pam_error "const pam_handle_t *pamh" "const char *fmt" "..." 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19The 20.Fn pam_error 21function displays an error message through the 22intermediary of the given PAM context's conversation function. 23.Sh RETURN VALUES 24The 25.Fn pam_error 26function returns one of the following values: 27.Bl -tag -width 18n 28.It Bq Er PAM_BUF_ERR 29Memory buffer error. 30.It Bq Er PAM_CONV_ERR 31Conversation failure. 32.It Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR 33System error. 34.El 35.Sh SEE ALSO 36.Xr pam 3 , 37.Xr pam_info 3 , 38.Xr pam_prompt 3 , 39.Xr pam_strerror 3 , 40.Xr pam_verror 3 41.Sh STANDARDS 42The 43.Fn pam_error 44function is an OpenPAM extension. 45.Sh AUTHORS 46The 47.Fn pam_error 48function and this manual page were 49developed for the 50.Fx 51Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the 52Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under 53DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 54.Pq Dq CBOSS , 55as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 56.Pp 57The OpenPAM library is maintained by 58.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@des.no . 59