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PAM Library Functionspam_acct_mgmt(3PAM)


NAME

 pam_acct_mgmt - perform PAM account validation procedures

SYNOPSIS

 
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lpam [ library ... ]
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
int pam_acct_mgmt(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags);

DESCRIPTION

 

The pam_acct_mgmt() function is called to determine if the current user's account is valid. It checks for password and account expiration, and verifies access hour restrictions. This function is typically called after the user has been authenticated with pam_authenticate(3PAM).

The pamh argument is an authentication handle obtained by a prior call to pam_start(). The following flags may be set in the flags field:

PAM_SILENT
The account management service should not generate any messages.
PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK
The account management service should return PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD if the user has a null authentication token.

RETURN VALUES

 

Upon successful completion, PAM_SUCCESS is returned. In addition to the error return values described in pam(3PAM), the following values may be returned:

PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
User not known to underlying account management module.
PAM_AUTH_ERR
Authentication failure.
PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD
New authentication token required. This is normally returned if the machine security policies require that the password should be changed because the password is NULL or has aged.
PAM_ACCT_EXPIRED
User account has expired.

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for description of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Stable
MT-LevelMT-Safe with exceptions

SEE ALSO

 

pam(3PAM), pam_authenticate(3PAM), pam_start(3PAM), libpam(3LIB), attributes(5)

NOTES

 

The interfaces in libpam are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multithreaded application uses its own PAM handle.


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 13 Oct 1998

 
      
      
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