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| author | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-08 12:30:31 +0000 |
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| committer | des <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-08 12:30:31 +0000 |
| commit | 343af1294ca2f648272ae5428bf8fe04ec051308 (patch) | |
| tree | 13fbc5f0e3fdcef7dedc9ab85b563bf59eaa3af5 /contrib/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3 | |
| parent | 1b3dab89b21d32019ba4c46b362a853fcdb5a062 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-343af1294ca2f648272ae5428bf8fe04ec051308.zip FreeBSD-src-343af1294ca2f648272ae5428bf8fe04ec051308.tar.gz | |
Vendor import of OpenPAM Cinchona.
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| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3 | 30 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3 b/contrib/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3 index a1d40fa..5a8ee56 100644 --- a/contrib/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3 +++ b/contrib/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3 @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $P4: //depot/projects/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3#9 $ +.\" $P4: //depot/projects/openpam/doc/man/pam_authenticate.3#10 $ .\" -.Dd March 7, 2002 +.Dd April 8, 2002 .Dt PAM_AUTHENTICATE 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -46,7 +46,31 @@ .Ft int .Fn pam_authenticate "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int flags" .Sh DESCRIPTION -No description available. +The +.Nm +function attempts to authenticate the user +associated with the pam context specified by the +.Va pamh +argument. +.Pp +The application is free to call +.Nm +as many times as it +wishes, but some modules may maintain an internal retry counter and +return +.Dv PAM_MAXTRIES +when it exceeds some preset or hardcoded limit. +.Pp +The +.Va flags +argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following +values: +.Pp +.Bd -literal + =PAM_SILENT + Do not emit any messages. + =PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK + Fail if the user's authentication token is null. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Nm |
