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      8 .Dd September 12, 2014
      9 .Dt PAM_STRERROR 3
     10 .Os
     11 .Sh NAME
     12 .Nm pam_strerror
     13 .Nd get PAM standard error message string
     14 .Sh LIBRARY
     15 .Lb libpam
     16 .Sh SYNOPSIS
     17 .In sys/types.h
     18 .In security/pam_appl.h
     19 .Ft "const char *"
     20 .Fn pam_strerror "const pam_handle_t *pamh" "int error_number"
     21 .Sh DESCRIPTION
     22 The
     23 .Fn pam_strerror
     24 function returns a pointer to a string containing a
     25 textual description of the error indicated by the
     26 .Fa error_number
     27 argument.
     28 argument, in the context of the PAM transaction described by the
     29 .Fa pamh
     30 The
     31 .Fa pamh
     32 argument is ignored.
     33 For compatibility with other implementations, it should be either a
     34 valid PAM handle returned by a previous call to
     35 .Xr pam_start 3 ,
     36 or
     37 .Dv NULL .
     38 .Sh RETURN VALUES
     39 The
     40 .Fn pam_strerror
     41 function returns
     42 .Dv NULL
     43 on failure.
     44 .Sh SEE ALSO
     45 .Xr pam 3 ,
     46 .Xr pam_start 3
     47 .Sh STANDARDS
     48 .Rs
     49 .%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules"
     50 .%D "June 1997"
     51 .Re
     52 .Sh AUTHORS
     53 The
     54 .Fn pam_strerror
     55 function and this manual page were
     56 developed for the
     57 .Fx
     58 Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
     59 Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under
     60 DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
     61 .Pq Dq CBOSS ,
     62 as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
     63 .Pp
     64 The OpenPAM library is maintained by
     65 .An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des (a] des.no .
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