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pam_open_session
—
open a user session
Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_open_session
(pam_handle_t
*pamh, int
flags);
The pam_open_session
sets up a user
session for a previously authenticated user. The session should later be
torn down by a call to
pam_close_session(3).
The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:
PAM_SILENT
If any other bits are set,
pam_open_session
will return
PAM_SYMBOL_ERR
.
The pam_open_session
function returns one
of the following values:
PAM_ABORT
]PAM_BUF_ERR
]PAM_CONV_ERR
]PAM_PERM_DENIED
]PAM_SERVICE_ERR
]PAM_SESSION_ERR
]PAM_SYMBOL_ERR
]PAM_SYSTEM_ERR
]X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.
The pam_open_session
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.
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