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authorThorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de>2006-02-17 19:16:12 +0000
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Purpose of commit: new feature Commit summary: --------------- More manual page updates/new manual pages 2006-02-17 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@thkukuk.de> * doc/man/Makefile.am: Add new manual pages. * doc/man/pam_end.3: Regenerated from xml file. * doc/man/pam_end.3.xml: Document freeing of item data. * doc/man/pam_get_user.3: New. * doc/man/pam_get_user.3.xml: New. * modules/pam_access/access.conf.5.xml: Fix typos. * modules/pam_env/Makefile.am: Add new manual pages. * modules/pam_env/README: Regenerate from xml file. * modules/pam_env/README.xml: New. * modules/pam_env/pam_env.8: New. * modules/pam_env/pam_env.8.xml: New. * modules/pam_env/pam_env.conf.5: New. * modules/pam_env/pam_env.conf.5.xml New.
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
+
+<refentry id='pam_get_user'>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_get_user</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class='setdesc'>Linux-PAM Manual</refmiscinfo>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv id='pam_get_user-name'>
+ <refname>pam_get_user</refname>
+ <refpurpose>
+ get user name
+ </refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+
+<!-- body begins here -->
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <funcsynopsis id="pam_get_user-synopsis">
+ <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;security/pam_modules.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>pam_get_user</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const pam_handle_t *<parameter>pamh</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char **<parameter>user</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>prompt</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+ </funcsynopsis>
+
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+
+ <refsect1 id="pam_get_user-description">
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+ <para>
+ The <function>pam_get_user</function> function returns the
+ name of the user specified by
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_start</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>. If no user was specified it what
+ <function>pam_get_item (pamh, PAM_USER, ... );</function> would
+ have returned. If this is NULL it obtains the username via the
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_conv</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> mechanism, it prompts the user with the first
+ non-NULL string in the following list:
+ </para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The <emphasis>prompt</emphasis> argument passed to the function.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ What is returned by pam_get_item (pamh, PAM_USER_PROMPT, ... );
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The default prompt: "login: "
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>
+ By whatever means the username is obtained, a pointer to it is
+ returned as the contents of <emphasis>*user</emphasis>. Note,
+ this memory should <emphasis remap="B">not</emphasis> be
+ <emphasis>free()</emphasis>'d or <emphasis>modified</emphasis>
+ by the module.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This function sets the <emphasis>PAM_USER</emphasis> item
+ associated with the
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_set_item</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> and
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_get_item</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> functions.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="pam_get_user-return_values">
+ <title>RETURN VALUES</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>PAM_SUCCESS</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ User name was successful retrieved.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>PAM_SYSTEM_ERR</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ A NULL pointer was submitted.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>PAM_CONV_ERR</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The conversation method supplied by the
+ application failed to obtain the username.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="pam_get_user-see_also">
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_end</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_get_item</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_set_item</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pam_strerror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>