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36.Dd February 22, 2002 |
37.Dt PAM_PROMPT 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm pam_prompt 41.Nd call the conversation function 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libpam 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In security/pam_appl.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn pam_prompt "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int style" "char **resp" "const char *fmt" "..." 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm |
51function constructs a message from the specified format 52string and arguments and passes it to the given PAM context's 53conversation function. 54.Pp 55A pointer to the response, or 56.Dv NULL 57if the conversation function did 58not return one, is stored in the location pointed to by the 59.Va resp 60argument. 61.Pp 62See 63.Xr pam_vprompt 3 64for further details. 65.Pp |
66.Sh RETURN VALUES 67The |
68.Nm |
69function returns one of the following values: |
70.Bl -tag -width 18n 71.It Bq Er PAM_BUF_ERR 72Memory buffer error. 73.It Bq Er PAM_CONV_ERR 74Conversation failure. 75.It Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR 76System error. |
77.El 78.Sh SEE ALSO |
79.Xr pam 3 , 80.Xr pam_error 3 , 81.Xr pam_info 3 , |
82.Xr pam_strerror 3 , |
83.Xr pam_vprompt 3 |
84.Sh STANDARDS |
85The 86.Nm 87function is an OpenPAM extension. |
88.Sh AUTHORS 89The 90.Nm 91function and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project 92by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network 93Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 94.Pq Dq CBOSS , 95as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. |