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6 .TH PAM_START 3 "1997 Feb 15" "PAM 0.56" "Application Programmers' Manual"
9 pam_start, pam_end \- activating PAM
12 .B #include <security/pam_appl.h>
14 .BI "int pam_start(const char " *service ", const char " *user ", const struct pam_conv " *conv ", pam_handle_t " **pamh_p ");"
16 .BI "int pam_end(pam_handle_t " *pamh ", int " pam_status ");"
23 library. Identifying the application with a particular
29 if not known at the time the interface is initialized. The
30 conversation structure is passed to the library via the
32 argument. (For a complete description of this and other structures
33 the reader is directed to the more verbose
35 application developers' guide). Upon successful initialization, an
36 opaque pointer-handle for future access to the library is returned
37 through the contents of the
45 library. The service application associated with the
47 handle, is terminated. The argument,
49 passes the value most recently returned to the application from the
50 library; it indicates the manner in which the library should be
51 shutdown. Besides carrying a return value, this argument may be
54 to indicate that the module should not treat the call too
55 seriously. It is generally used to indicate that the current closing
56 of the library is in a
58 process, and that the parent will take care of cleaning up things that
59 exist outside of the current process space (files etc.).
71 May be translated to text with
72 .BR pam_strerror "(3). "
75 DCE-RFC 86.0, October 1995.
79 flag is pending acceptance with the DCE (as of 1996/12/4).
88 .BR pam_authenticate "(3), "
89 .BR pam_acct_mgmt "(3), "
90 .BR pam_open_session "(3), "
92 .BR pam_chauthtok "(3)."
97 .BR "System administrators" ", "
98 .BR "module developers" ", "
100 .BR "application developers" ". "