1.\" $NetBSD: pam_set_item.3,v 1.2 2011/12/25 22:27:55 christos Exp $ 2.\" 3.\"- 4.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. 5.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Dag-Erling Smørgrav 6.\" All rights reserved. 7.\" 8.\" This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and 9.\" Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of 10.\" Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 11.\" ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 12.\" 13.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 14.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 15.\" are met: 16.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 17.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 18.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 19.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 20.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 21.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote 22.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 23.\" permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" Id 38.\" 39.Dd December 18, 2011 40.Dt PAM_SET_ITEM 3 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm pam_set_item 44.Nd set authentication information 45.Sh LIBRARY 46.Lb libpam 47.Sh SYNOPSIS 48.In sys/types.h 49.In security/pam_appl.h 50.Ft "int" 51.Fn pam_set_item "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int item_type" "const void *item" 52.Sh DESCRIPTION 53The 54.Nm 55function sets the item specified by the 56.Fa item_type 57argument to a copy of the object pointed to by the 58.Fa item 59argument. 60The item is stored in the PAM context specified by the 61.Fa pamh 62argument. 63See 64.Xr pam_get_item 3 65for a list of recognized item types. 66.Sh RETURN VALUES 67The 68.Nm 69function returns one of the following values: 70.Bl -tag -width 18n 71.It Bq Er PAM_BUF_ERR 72Memory buffer error. 73.It Bq Er PAM_SYMBOL_ERR 74Invalid symbol. 75.It Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR 76System error. 77.El 78.Sh SEE ALSO 79.Xr pam 3 , 80.Xr pam_get_item 3 , 81.Xr pam_strerror 3 82.Sh STANDARDS 83.Rs 84.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules" 85.%D "June 1997" 86.Re 87.Sh AUTHORS 88The 89.Nm 90function and this manual page were developed for the 91.Fx 92Project by 93ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the 94Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under 95DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 96.Pq Dq CBOSS , 97as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 98