NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

PAM_AUTHENTICATE(3)           Linux-PAM Manual           PAM_AUTHENTICATE(3)

NAME         top

       pam_authenticate - account authentication

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <security/pam_appl.h>
       int pam_authenticate(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The pam_authenticate function is used to authenticate the user. The
       user is required to provide an authentication token depending upon
       the authentication service, usually this is a password, but could
       also be a finger print.
       The PAM service module may request that the user enter their username
       via the conversation mechanism (see pam_start(3) and pam_conv(3)).
       The name of the authenticated user will be present in the PAM item
       PAM_USER. This item may be recovered with a call to pam_get_item(3).
       The pamh argument is an authentication handle obtained by a prior
       call to pam_start(). The flags argument is the binary or of zero or
       more of the following values:
       PAM_SILENT
           Do not emit any messages.
       PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK
           The PAM module service should return PAM_AUTH_ERR if the user
           does not have a registered authentication token.

RETURN VALUES         top

       PAM_ABORT
           The application should exit immediately after calling pam_end(3)
           first.
       PAM_AUTH_ERR
           The user was not authenticated.
       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_MAXTRIES
           One or more of the authentication modules has reached its limit
           of tries authenticating the user. Do not try again.
       PAM_SUCCESS
           The user was successfully authenticated.
       PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
           User unknown to authentication service.

SEE ALSO         top

       pam_start(3), pam_setcred(3), pam_chauthtok(3), pam_strerror(3),
       pam(8)

COLOPHON         top

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Linux-PAM Manual                 04/01/2016              PAM_AUTHENTICATE(3)

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