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PAM_SM_ACCT_MGMT(3) Linux-PAM ManualPAM_SM_ACCT_MGMT(3)pam_sm_acct_mgmt - PAM service function for account management
#include <security/pam_modules.h>int pam_sm_acct_mgmt(pam_handle_t *pamh, intflags, intargc,const char **argv);
Thepam_sm_acct_mgmtfunction is the service module's implementation of thepam_acct_mgmt(3) interface. This function performs the task of establishing whether the user is permitted to gain access at this time. It should be understood that the user has previously been validated by an authentication module. This function checks for other things. Such things might be: the time of day or the date, the terminal line, remote hostname, etc. This function may also determine things like the expiration on passwords, and respond that the user change it before continuing. Valid flags, which may be logically OR'd withPAM_SILENT, are: PAM_SILENT Do not emit any messages. PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK ReturnPAM_AUTH_ERRif the database of authentication tokens for this authentication mechanism has aNULL entry for the user.
PAM_ACCT_EXPIRED User account has expired. PAM_AUTH_ERR Authentication failure. PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD The user's authentication token has expired. Before calling this function again the application will arrange for a new one to be given. This will likely result in a call topam_sm_chauthtok(). PAM_PERM_DENIED Permission denied. PAM_SUCCESS The authentication token was successfully updated. PAM_USER_UNKNOWN User unknown to password service.
pam(3),pam_acct_mgmt(3),pam_sm_chauthtok(3),pam_strerror(3),PAM(8)
This page is part of thelinux-pam (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) project. Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.linux-pam.org/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see ⟨//www.linux-pam.org/⟩. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam.git⟩ on 2023-12-22. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2023-12-18.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which isnot part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.orgLinux-PAM Manual 12/22/2023PAM_SM_ACCT_MGMT(3)Pages that refer to this page:pam_debug(8)
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