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NAME

6       pam_sm_setcred - PAM service function to alter credentials
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SYNOPSIS

9       #define PAM_SM_AUTH
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11       #include <security/pam_modules.h>
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13       PAM_EXTERN int pam_sm_setcred(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc,
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DESCRIPTION

17       The pam_sm_setcred function is the service module´s implementation of
18       the pam_setcred(3) interface.
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20       This function performs the task of altering the credentials of the user
21       with respect to the corresponding authorization scheme. Generally, an
22       authentication module may have access to more information about a user
23       than their authentication token. This function is used to make such
24       information available to the application. It should only be called
25       after the user has been authenticated but before a session has been
26       established.
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28       Valid flags, which may be logically OR´d with PAM_SILENT, are:
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31           Do not emit any messages.
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33       PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED
34           Initialize the credentials for the user.
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36       PAM_DELETE_CRED
37           Delete the credentials associated with the authentication service.
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39       PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED
40           Reinitialize the user credentials.
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43           Extend the lifetime of the user credentials.
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45       The way the auth stack is navigated in order to evaluate the
46       pam_setcred() function call, independent of the pam_sm_setcred() return
47       codes, is exactly the same way that it was navigated when evaluating
48       the pam_authenticate() library call. Typically, if a stack entry was
49       ignored in evaluating pam_authenticate(), it will be ignored when
50       libpam evaluates the pam_setcred() function call. Otherwise, the return
51       codes from each module specific pam_sm_setcred() call are treated as
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RETURN VALUES

55       PAM_CRED_UNAVAIL
56           This module cannot retrieve the user´s credentials.
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58       PAM_CRED_EXPIRED
59           The user´s credentials have expired.
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61       PAM_CRED_ERR
62           This module was unable to set the credentials of the user.
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64       PAM_SUCCESS
65           The user credential was successfully set.
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67       PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
68           The user is not known to this authentication module.
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70       These, non-PAM_SUCCESS, return values will typically lead to the
71       credential stack failing. The first such error will dominate in the
72       return value of pam_setcred().
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SEE ALSO

75       pam(3), pam_authenticate(3), pam_setcred(3), pam_sm_authenticate(3),
76       pam_strerror(3), PAM(8)
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