from small one page howto to huge articles all in one place
 

search text in:





Poll
What does your sytem tell when running "ulimit -u"?








poll results

Last additions:
using iotop to find disk usage hogs

using iotop to find disk usage hogs

words:

887

views:

186342

userrating:

average rating: 1.7 (102 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)


May 25th. 2007:
Words

486

Views

250360

why adblockers are bad


Workaround and fixes for the current Core Dump Handling vulnerability affected kernels

Workaround and fixes for the current Core Dump Handling vulnerability affected kernels

words:

161

views:

137535

userrating:

average rating: 1.4 (42 votes) (1=very good 6=terrible)


April, 26th. 2006:

Druckversion
You are here: manpages





PAM_GET_USER

Section: Linux-PAM Manual (3)
Updated: 04/01/2016
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

pam_get_user - get user name  

SYNOPSIS

#include <security/pam_modules.h>
int pam_get_user(const pam_handle_t *pamh, const char **user, const char *prompt);
 

DESCRIPTION

The pam_get_user function returns the name of the user specified by pam_start(3). If no user was specified it what pam_get_item (pamh, PAM_USER, ... ); would have returned. If this is NULL it obtains the username via the pam_conv(3) mechanism, it prompts the user with the first non-NULL string in the following list:

* The prompt argument passed to the function.

* What is returned by pam_get_item (pamh, PAM_USER_PROMPT, ... );

* The default prompt: "login: "

By whatever means the username is obtained, a pointer to it is returned as the contents of *user. Note, this memory should not be free()'d or modified by the module.

This function sets the PAM_USER item associated with the pam_set_item(3) and pam_get_item(3) functions.  

RETURN VALUES

PAM_SUCCESS

User name was successful retrieved.

PAM_SYSTEM_ERR

A NULL pointer was submitted.

PAM_CONV_ERR

The conversation method supplied by the application failed to obtain the username.
 

SEE ALSO

pam_end(3), pam_get_item(3), pam_set_item(3), pam_strerror(3)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUES
SEE ALSO





Support us on Content Nation
rdf newsfeed | rss newsfeed | Atom newsfeed
- Powered by LeopardCMS - Running on Gentoo -
Copyright 2004-2020 Sascha Nitsch Unternehmensberatung GmbH
Valid XHTML1.1 : Valid CSS : buttonmaker
- Level Triple-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 -
- Copyright and legal notices -
Time to create this page: 15.5 ms