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<para>
The <function>pam_getenv</function> function searches the
PAM environment list as associated with the handle
- <emphasis>pamh</emphasis> for a string that matches the string
- pointed to by <emphasis>name</emphasis>. The return values are
- of the form: "<emphasis>name=value</emphasis>".
+ <emphasis>pamh</emphasis> for an item that matches the string
+ pointed to by <emphasis>name</emphasis> and returns a pointer
+ to the value of the environment variable. The application is
+ not allowed to free the data.
</para>
</refsect1>