pam_sm_authenticate (3)
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Title: pam_sm_authenticate
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Date: 09/19/2013
Manual: Linux-PAM Manual
Source: Linux-PAM Manual
Language: English
NAME
pam_sm_authenticate - PAM service function for user authenticationSYNOPSIS
#define PAM_SM_AUTH
#include <security/pam_modules.h>
- PAM_EXTERN int pam_sm_authenticate(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc, const char **argv);
DESCRIPTION
This function performs the task of authenticating the user.
Valid flags, which may be logically OR'd with PAM_SILENT, are:
PAM_SILENT
- Do not emit any messages.
PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK
- Return PAM_AUTH_ERR if the database of authentication tokens for this authentication mechanism has a NULL entry for the user. Without this flag, such a NULL token will lead to a success without the user being prompted.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_AUTH_ERR
- Authentication failure.
PAM_CRED_INSUFFICIENT
- For some reason the application does not have sufficient credentials to authenticate the user.
PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL
- The modules were not able to access the authentication information. This might be due to a network or hardware failure etc.
PAM_SUCCESS
- The authentication token was successfully updated.
PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
- The supplied username is not known to the authentication service.
PAM_MAXTRIES
- One or more of the authentication modules has reached its limit of tries authenticating the user. Do not try again.
SEE ALSO
pam(3), pam_authenticate(3), pam_sm_setcred(3), pam_strerror(3), PAM(8)