pam_acct_mgmt(3PAM)					       PAM Library Functions					       pam_acct_mgmt(3PAM)

NAME

       pam_acct_mgmt - perform PAM account validation procedures

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lpam [ library ... ]
       #include <security/pam_appl.h>

       int pam_acct_mgmt(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

       The pam_acct_mgmt() function is called to determine if the current user's account is valid.  It checks for password and account expiration,
       and verifies access hour restrictions. This function is typically called after the user has been authenticated with pam_authenticate(3PAM).

       The pamh argument is an authentication handle obtained by a prior call to pam_start(). The following flags may be set in the flags field:

       PAM_SILENT		    The account management service should not generate any messages.

       PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK    The account management service should return PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD if the user has a null authentication token.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion,  PAM_SUCCESS is returned. In addition to the error return values described in pam(3PAM), the  following  values
       may be returned:

       PAM_USER_UNKNOWN        User not known to underlying account management module.

       PAM_AUTH_ERR	       Authentication failure.

       PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD    New  authentication  token  required.  This  is normally returned if the machine security policies require that the
			       password should be changed because the password is  NULL or has aged.

       PAM_ACCT_EXPIRED        User account has expired.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     | Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe with exceptions	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pam(3PAM), pam_authenticate(3PAM), pam_start(3PAM), libpam(3LIB), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The interfaces in  libpam are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multithreaded application uses its own PAM handle.

SunOS 5.11							    13 Oct 1998 					       pam_acct_mgmt(3PAM)