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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

pam_getenvlist(3PAM)

Name

pam_getenvlist - returns a list of all the PAM environment variables

Synopsis

cc [ flag ... ] file ... –lpam [ library ... ]
#include <security/pam_appl.h>

char **pam_getenvlist(pam_handle_t *pamh);

Description

The pam_getenvlist() function returns a list of all the PAM environment variables stored in the PAM handle pamh. The list is returned as a null-terminated array of pointers to strings. Each string contains a single PAM environment variable of the form name=value. The list returned is a duplicate copy of all the environment variables stored in pamh. It is the responsibility of the calling application to free the memory returned by pam_getenvlist().

Return Values

If successful, pam_getenvlist() returns in a null-terminated array a copy of all the PAM environment variables stored in pamh. Otherwise, pam_getenvlist() returns a null pointer.

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability
Committed
MT-Level
MT-Safe with exceptions

See Also

libpam(3LIB), pam(3PAM), pam_getenv(3PAM), pam_putenv(3PAM), attributes(7)

Notes

The interfaces in libpam are MT-Safe only if each thread within the multithreaded application uses its own PAM handle.