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.Dd September 12, 2014 .Dt PAM_SM_AUTHENTICATE 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pam_sm_authenticate .Nd service module implementation for pam_authenticate .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libpam .Sh SYNOPSIS n sys/types.h n security/pam_appl.h n security/pam_modules.h .Ft "int" .Fn pam_sm_authenticate "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int flags" "int argc" "const char **argv" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn pam_sm_authenticate function is the service module's implementation of the .Xr pam_authenticate 3 API function. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn pam_sm_authenticate function returns one of the following values: l -tag -width 18n t Bq Er PAM_ABORT General failure. t Bq Er PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL Authentication information is unavailable. t Bq Er PAM_AUTH_ERR Authentication error. t Bq Er PAM_BUF_ERR Memory buffer error. t Bq Er PAM_CONV_ERR Conversation failure. t Bq Er PAM_CRED_INSUFFICIENT Insufficient credentials. t Bq Er PAM_IGNORE Ignore this module. t Bq Er PAM_MAXTRIES Maximum number of tries exceeded. t Bq Er PAM_PERM_DENIED Permission denied. t Bq Er PAM_SERVICE_ERR Error in service module. t Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR System error. t Bq Er PAM_USER_UNKNOWN Unknown user. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pam 3 , .Xr pam_authenticate 3 , .Xr pam_strerror 3 .Sh STANDARDS .Rs .%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules" .%D "June 1997" .Re .Sh AUTHORS The .Fn pam_sm_authenticate function and this manual page were developed for the .Fx Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035

q Dq CBOSS , as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

p The OpenPAM library is maintained by .An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@des.no .