PAM_SM_SETCRED(3)                        Linux-PAM Manual                       PAM_SM_SETCRED(3)



NAME
       pam_sm_setcred - PAM service function to alter credentials

SYNOPSIS
       #define PAM_SM_AUTH

       #include <security/pam_modules.h>

       PAM_EXTERN int pam_sm_setcred(pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc, const char **argv);

DESCRIPTION
       The pam_sm_setcred function is the service module's implementation of the pam_setcred(3)
       interface.

       This function performs the task of altering the credentials of the user with respect to
       the corresponding authorization scheme. Generally, an authentication module may have
       access to more information about a user than their authentication token. This function is
       used to make such information available to the application. It should only be called after
       the user has been authenticated but before a session has been established.

       Valid flags, which may be logically OR'd with PAM_SILENT, are:

       PAM_SILENT
           Do not emit any messages.

       PAM_ESTABLISH_CRED
           Initialize the credentials for the user.

       PAM_DELETE_CRED
           Delete the credentials associated with the authentication service.

       PAM_REINITIALIZE_CRED
           Reinitialize the user credentials.

       PAM_REFRESH_CRED
           Extend the lifetime of the user credentials.

       The way the auth stack is navigated in order to evaluate the pam_setcred() function call,
       independent of the pam_sm_setcred() return codes, is exactly the same way that it was
       navigated when evaluating the pam_authenticate() library call. Typically, if a stack entry
       was ignored in evaluating pam_authenticate(), it will be ignored when libpam evaluates the
       pam_setcred() function call. Otherwise, the return codes from each module specific
       pam_sm_setcred() call are treated as required.

RETURN VALUES
       PAM_CRED_UNAVAIL
           This module cannot retrieve the user's credentials.

       PAM_CRED_EXPIRED
           The user's credentials have expired.

       PAM_CRED_ERR
           This module was unable to set the credentials of the user.

       PAM_SUCCESS
           The user credential was successfully set.

       PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
           The user is not known to this authentication module.

       These, non-PAM_SUCCESS, return values will typically lead to the credential stack failing.
       The first such error will dominate in the return value of pam_setcred().

SEE ALSO
       pam(3), pam_authenticate(3), pam_setcred(3), pam_sm_authenticate(3), pam_strerror(3),
       PAM(8)



Linux-PAM Manual                            09/19/2013                          PAM_SM_SETCRED(3)