Linux manual pages Section 3  

Name

pam_getenv — get a PAM environment variable

Synopsis

#include <security/pam_appl.h>
const char *pam_getenv( pam_handle_t *pamh,
  const char *name);
 

DESCRIPTION

The pam_getenv function searches the PAM environment list as associated with the handle pamh for an item that matches the string pointed to by name and returns a pointer to the value of the environment variable. The application is not allowed to free the data.

RETURN VALUES

The pam_getenv function returns NULL on failure.

SEE ALSO

pam_start(3), pam_getenvlist(3), pam_putenv(3), pam(8)

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