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Name

pam_misc_drop_env — liberating a locally saved environment

Synopsis

#include <security/pam_misc.h>
int pam_misc_drop_env( char **env);
 

DESCRIPTION

This function is defined to complement the pam_getenvlist(3) function. It liberates the memory associated with env, overwriting with 0 all memory before free()ing it.

SEE ALSO

pam_getenvlist(3), pam(8)

STANDARDS

The pam_misc_drop_env function is part of the libpam_misc Library and not defined in any standard.

See Linux-PAM copyright notice for more information.