1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and 6.\" Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of 7.\" Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 8.\" ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote 19.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 20.\" permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" $P4$ 35.\" 36.Dd June 16, 2005 37.Dt PAM_PROMPT 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm pam_prompt 41.Nd call the conversation function 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libpam 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In sys/types.h 46.In security/pam_appl.h 47.Ft "int" 48.Fn pam_prompt "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int style" "char **resp" "const char *fmt" "..." 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52function constructs a message from the specified format 53string and arguments and passes it to the given PAM context's 54conversation function. 55.Pp 56A pointer to the response, or 57.Dv NULL 58if the conversation function did 59not return one, is stored in the location pointed to by the 60.Fa resp 61argument. 62.Pp 63See 64.Xr pam_vprompt 3 65for further details. 66.Pp 67.Sh RETURN VALUES 68The 69.Nm 70function returns one of the following values: 71.Bl -tag -width 18n 72.It Bq Er PAM_BUF_ERR 73Memory buffer error. 74.It Bq Er PAM_CONV_ERR 75Conversation failure. 76.It Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR 77System error. 78.El 79.Sh SEE ALSO 80.Xr pam 3 , 81.Xr pam_error 3 , 82.Xr pam_info 3 , 83.Xr pam_strerror 3 , 84.Xr pam_vprompt 3 85.Sh STANDARDS 86The 87.Nm 88function is an OpenPAM extension. 89.Sh AUTHORS 90The 91.Nm 92function and this manual page were developed for the 93.Fx 94Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the 95Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.& under 96DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 97.Pq Dq CBOSS , 98as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 99