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 5.10							    13 Oct 1998 					       pam_acct_mgmt(3PAM)