NAME
pam_end —
terminate the PAM
transaction
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_end(
pam_handle_t
*pamh,
int status);
DESCRIPTION
The
pam_end() function terminates a PAM transaction and
destroys the corresponding PAM context, releasing all resources allocated to
it.
The
status argument should be set to the error code
returned by the last API call before the call to
pam_end().
RETURN VALUES
The
pam_end() function returns one of the following values:
-
-
- [
PAM_SUCCESS
]
- Success.
-
-
- [
PAM_BAD_HANDLE
]
- Invalid PAM handle.
SEE ALSO
pam(3),
pam_strerror(3)
STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) -
Pluggable Authentication Modules, June
1997.
AUTHORS
The
pam_end() 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>.