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