PAM_GETENV(3) Library Functions Manual PAM_GETENV(3)

pam_getenv
retrieve the value of a PAM environment variable

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>

const char *
pam_getenv(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *name);

The pam_getenv() function returns the value of an environment variable. Its semantics are similar to those of getenv(3), but it accesses the PAM context's environment list instead of the application's.

The pam_getenv() function returns NULL on failure.

getenv(3), pam(3), pam_getenvlist(3), pam_putenv(3), pam_setenv(3)

X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules, June 1997.

The pam_getenv() function and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

The OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>.

April 30, 2017 NetBSD 9.2