freebsd man page for pam_getenv

Query: pam_getenv

OS: freebsd

Section: 3

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PAM_GETENV(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     PAM_GETENV(3)

NAME
pam_getenv -- retrieve the value of a PAM environment variable
LIBRARY
Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <security/pam_appl.h> const char * pam_getenv(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *name);
DESCRIPTION
The pam_getenv() function returns the value of an environment variable. Its semantics are similar to those of getenv(3), but it accesses the PAM context's environment list instead of the application's.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_getenv() function returns NULL on failure.
SEE ALSO
getenv(3), pam(3), pam_getenvlist(3), pam_putenv(3), pam_setenv(3)
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
AUTHORS
The pam_getenv() 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. The OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@des.no>.
BSD
September 12, 2014 BSD
Related Man Pages
pam_setenv(3) - mojave
pam_getenv(3) - netbsd
pam_getenvlist(3) - netbsd
pam_putenv(3) - freebsd
pam_setenv(3) - freebsd
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