PAM_OPEN_SESSION(3)

NAME
pam_open_session - open a user session

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
int
pam_open_session(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

DESCRIPTION
The pam_open_session() sets up a user session for a previously authenticated user. The session should later be torn down by a call to pam_close_session(3).

The flags argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following values:

PAM_SILENT
    Do not emit any messages.

If any other bits are set, pam_open_session() will return PAM_BAD_CONSTANT.

RETURN VALUES
The pam_open_session() function returns one of the following values:

[PAM_SUCCESS]
    Success.

[PAM_ABORT]
    General failure.

[PAM_BAD_CONSTANT]
    Bad constant.

[PAM_BUF_ERR]
    Memory buffer error.

[PAM_CONV_ERR]
    Conversation failure.

[PAM_PERM_DENIED]
    Permission denied.

[PAM_SERVICE_ERR]
    Error in service module.

[PAM_SESSION_ERR]
    Session failure.

[PAM_SYSTEM_ERR]
    System error.

SEE ALSO
pam(3), pam_close_session(3), pam_strerror(3)

STANDARDS
X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.

AUTHORS
The pam_open_session() function and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

The OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>.