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.Dd January 6, 2003
.Dt PAM_STRERROR 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pam_strerror
.Nd get PAM standard error message string
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libpam
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In security/pam_appl.h
.Ft const char *
.Fn pam_strerror "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int error_number"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
function returns a pointer to a string containing a
textual description of the error indicated by the
.Va error_number
argument, in the context of the PAM transaction described by the
.Va pamh
argument.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Nm
function returns
.Dv NULL
on failure.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pam 3
.Sh STANDARDS
.Rs
.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules"
.%D "June 1997"
.Re
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
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
.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
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