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

PAM_SETCRED(3)                Linux-PAM Manual                PAM_SETCRED(3)

NAME         top

       pam_setcred - establish / delete user credentials

SYNOPSIS         top

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

DESCRIPTION         top

       The pam_setcred function is used to establish, maintain and delete
       the credentials of a user. It should be called to set the credentials
       after a user has been authenticated and before a session is opened
       for the user (with pam_open_session(3)). The credentials should be
       deleted after the session has been closed (with
       pam_close_session(3)).
       A credential is something that the user possesses. It is some
       property, such as a Kerberos ticket, or a supplementary group
       membership that make up the uniqueness of a given user. On a Linux
       system the user's UID and GID's are credentials too. However, it has
       been decided that these properties (along with the default
       supplementary groups of which the user is a member) are credentials
       that should be set directly by the application and not by PAM. Such
       credentials should be established, by the application, prior to a
       call to this function. For example, initgroups(2) (or equivalent)
       should have been performed.
       Valid flags, any one of which, may be logically OR'd with PAM_SILENT,
       are:
       PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED
           Initialize the credentials for the user.
       PAM_DELETE_CRED
           Delete the user's credentials.
       PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED
           Fully reinitialize the user's credentials.
       PAM_REFRESH_CRED
           Extend the lifetime of the existing credentials.

RETURN VALUES         top

       PAM_BUF_ERR
           Memory buffer error.
       PAM_CRED_ERR
           Failed to set user credentials.
       PAM_CRED_EXPIRED
           User credentials are expired.
       PAM_CRED_UNAVAIL
           Failed to retrieve user credentials.
       PAM_SUCCESS
           Data was successful stored.
       PAM_SYSTEM_ERR
           A NULL pointer was submitted as PAM handle, the function was
           called by a module or another system error occured.
       PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
           User is not known to an authentication module.

SEE ALSO         top

       pam_authenticate(3), pam_open_session(3), pam_close_session(3),
       pam_strerror(3)

COLOPHON         top

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