mojave man page for pam_prompt

Query: pam_prompt

OS: mojave

Section: 3

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PAM_PROMPT(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     PAM_PROMPT(3)

NAME
pam_prompt -- call the conversation function
LIBRARY
Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <security/pam_appl.h> int pam_prompt(const pam_handle_t *pamh, int style, char **resp, const char *fmt, ...);
DESCRIPTION
The pam_prompt function constructs a message from the specified format string and arguments and passes it to the given PAM context's conver- sation function. A pointer to the response, or NULL if the conversation function did not return one, is stored in the location pointed to by the resp argu- ment. See pam_vprompt(3) for further details.
RETURN VALUES
The pam_prompt 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_info(3), pam_strerror(3), pam_vprompt(3)
STANDARDS
The pam_prompt function is an OpenPAM extension.
AUTHORS
The pam_prompt 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.
BSD
December 21, 2007 BSD
Related Man Pages
pam_vprompt(3) - freebsd
pam_vprompt(3) - mojave
pam_error(3) - osx
pam_vprompt(3) - osx
pam_error(3) - freebsd
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