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+.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source.
+.\" $Id: pam_start.3,v 1.1.1.1 2001/04/29 04:16:53 hartmans Exp $
+.\" Copyright (c) Andrew G. Morgan 1996-7 <morgan@parc.power.net>
+.TH PAM_START 3 "1997 Feb 15" "Linux-PAM 0.56" "Application Programmers' Manual"
+.SH NAME
+
+pam_start, pam_end \- activating Linux-PAM
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <security/pam_appl.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int pam_start(const char " *service ", const char " *user ", const struct pam_conv " *conv ", pam_handle_t " **pamh_p ");"
+.sp
+.BI "int pam_end(pam_handle_t " *pamh ", int " pam_status ");"
+.sp 2
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.TP
+.B pam_start
+Initialize the
+.I Linux-PAM
+library.  Identifying the application with a particular
+.IR service
+name.  The
+.IR user "name"
+can take the value
+.IR NULL ", "
+if not known at the time the interface is initialized.  The
+conversation structure is passed to the library via the
+.IR conv
+argument.  (For a complete description of this and other structures
+the reader is directed to the more verbose
+.IR Linux-PAM
+application developers' guide).  Upon successful initialization, an
+opaque pointer-handle for future access to the library is returned
+through the contents of the
+.IR pamh_p
+pointer.
+
+.TP
+.B pam_end
+Terminate the
+.B Linux-PAM
+library.  The service application associated with the
+.IR pamh
+handle, is terminated.  The argument,
+.IR pam_status ", "
+passes the value most recently returned to the application from the
+library; it indicates the manner in which the library should be
+shutdown.  Besides carrying a return value, this argument may be
+logically OR'd with
+.IR PAM_DATA_SILENT
+to indicate that the module should not treat the call too
+seriously. It is generally used to indicate that the current closing
+of the library is in a
+.IR fork "(2)ed"
+process, and that the parent will take care of cleaning up things that
+exist outside of the current process space (files etc.).
+
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.TP
+.B pam_start
+.TP
+.B pam_end
+On success,
+.BR PAM_SUCCESS
+is returned
+
+.SH ERRORS
+May be translated to text with
+.BR pam_strerror "(3). "
+
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+DCE-RFC 86.0, October 1995.
+.sp
+Note, the 
+.BR PAM_DATA_SILENT
+flag is pending acceptance with the DCE (as of 1996/12/4).
+
+.SH BUGS
+.sp 2
+None known.
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+
+.BR fork "(2), "
+.BR pam_authenticate "(3), "
+.BR pam_acct_mgmt "(3), "
+.BR pam_open_session "(3), "
+and
+.BR pam_chauthtok "(3)."
+
+Also, see the three
+.BR Linux-PAM
+Guides, for
+.BR "System administrators" ", "
+.BR "module developers" ", "
+and
+.BR "application developers" ". "