1.\" Generated from pam_close_session.c by gendoc.pl 2.\" $Id: pam_close_session.c 648 2013-03-05 17:54:27Z des $ 3.Dd September 12, 2014 4.Dt PAM_CLOSE_SESSION 3 5.Os 6.Sh NAME 7.Nm pam_close_session 8.Nd close an existing user session 9.Sh LIBRARY 10.Lb libpam 11.Sh SYNOPSIS 12.In sys/types.h 13.In security/pam_appl.h 14.Ft "int" 15.Fn pam_close_session "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int flags" 16.Sh DESCRIPTION 17The 18.Fn pam_close_session 19function tears down the user session previously 20set up by 21.Xr pam_open_session 3 . 22.Pp 23The 24.Fa flags 25argument is the binary or of zero or more of the following 26values: 27.Bl -tag -width 18n 28.It Dv PAM_SILENT 29Do not emit any messages. 30.El 31.Pp 32If any other bits are set, 33.Fn pam_close_session 34will return 35.Dv PAM_SYMBOL_ERR . 36.Sh RETURN VALUES 37The 38.Fn pam_close_session 39function returns one of the following values: 40.Bl -tag -width 18n 41.It Bq Er PAM_ABORT 42General failure. 43.It Bq Er PAM_BUF_ERR 44Memory buffer error. 45.It Bq Er PAM_CONV_ERR 46Conversation failure. 47.It Bq Er PAM_PERM_DENIED 48Permission denied. 49.It Bq Er PAM_SERVICE_ERR 50Error in service module. 51.It Bq Er PAM_SESSION_ERR 52Session failure. 53.It Bq Er PAM_SYMBOL_ERR 54Invalid symbol. 55.It Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR 56System error. 57.El 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr pam 3 , 60.Xr pam_open_session 3 , 61.Xr pam_strerror 3 62.Sh STANDARDS 63.Rs 64.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules" 65.%D "June 1997" 66.Re 67.Sh AUTHORS 68The 69.Fn pam_close_session 70function and this manual page were 71developed for the 72.Fx 73Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the 74Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under 75DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 76.Pq Dq CBOSS , 77as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 78.Pp 79The OpenPAM library is maintained by 80.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@des.no . 81