NAME
pam_info —
display an information
message
LIBRARY
Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_info(const
pam_handle_t *pamh, const
char *fmt,
...);
DESCRIPTION
The pam_info function displays an
informational message through the intermediary of the given PAM context's
conversation function.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_info function returns one of the
following values:
- [
PAM_BUF_ERR] - Memory buffer error.
- [
PAM_CONV_ERR] - Conversation failure.
- [
PAM_SYSTEM_ERR] - System error.
SEE ALSO
pam(3), pam_error(3), pam_prompt(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_vinfo(3)
STANDARDS
The pam_info function is an OpenPAM
extension.
AUTHORS
The pam_info 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.