NAME

pam_sm_authenticate —

service module implementation for pam_authenticate

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>

#include
  <security/pam_modules.h>

int
pam_sm_authenticate(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc, const char **argv);

DESCRIPTION

The pam_sm_authenticate() function is the service module's implementation of the pam_authenticate(3) API function.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_sm_authenticate() function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_SUCCESS]: Success.
[PAM_ABORT]: General failure.
[PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL]: Authentication information is unavailable.
[PAM_AUTH_ERR]: Authentication error.
[PAM_BUF_ERR]: Memory buffer error.
[PAM_CONV_ERR]: Conversation failure.
[PAM_CRED_INSUFFICIENT]: Insufficient credentials.
[PAM_IGNORE]: Ignore this module.
[PAM_MAXTRIES]: Maximum number of tries exceeded.
[PAM_PERM_DENIED]: Permission denied.
[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]: Error in service module.
[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]: System error.
[PAM_USER_UNKNOWN]: Unknown user.

STANDARDS

X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.

AUTHORS

The pam_sm_authenticate() 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 Smørgrav <des@des.no>.