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.Dd February 24, 2019 .Dt PAM_END 3 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pam_end .Nd terminate the PAM transaction .Sh SYNOPSIS n sys/types.h n security/pam_appl.h .Ft "int" .Fn pam_end "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int status" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn pam_end function terminates a PAM transaction and destroys the corresponding PAM context, releasing all resources allocated to it.
p The .Fa status argument should be set to the error code returned by the last API call before the call to .Fn pam_end . .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn pam_end function returns one of the following values: l -tag -width 18n t Bq Er PAM_SUCCESS Success. t Bq Er PAM_BAD_HANDLE Invalid PAM handle. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pam 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_end 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 Mt des (at] des.no .
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