1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. 3.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Dag-Erling Smørgrav 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and 7.\" Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of 8.\" Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 9.\" ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 10.\" 11.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 12.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 13.\" are met: 14.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 16.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 17.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 18.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 19.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote 20.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 21.\" permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" $P4$ 36.\" 37.Dd December 21, 2007 38.Dt PAM_END 3 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm pam_end 42.Nd terminate the PAM transaction 43.Sh LIBRARY 44.Lb libpam 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.In sys/types.h 47.In security/pam_appl.h 48.Ft "int" 49.Fn pam_end "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int status" 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53function terminates a PAM transaction and destroys the 54corresponding PAM context, releasing all resources allocated to it. 55.Pp 56The 57.Fa status 58argument should be set to the error code returned by the 59last API call before the call to 60.Nm 61. 62.Sh RETURN VALUES 63The 64.Nm 65function returns one of the following values: 66.Bl -tag -width 18n 67.It Bq Er PAM_SYSTEM_ERR 68System error. 69.El 70.Sh SEE ALSO 71.Xr pam 3 , 72.Xr pam_strerror 3 73.Sh STANDARDS 74.Rs 75.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules" 76.%D "June 1997" 77.Re 78.Sh AUTHORS 79The 80.Nm 81function and this manual page were developed for the 82.Fx 83Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the 84Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under 85DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 86.Pq Dq CBOSS , 87as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 88