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37.Dd December 21, 2007
38.Dt PAM_GETENV 3
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm pam_getenv
42.Nd retrieve the value of a PAM environment variable
43.Sh LIBRARY
44.Lb libpam
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.In sys/types.h
47.In security/pam_appl.h
48.Ft "const char *"
49.Fn pam_getenv "pam_handle_t *pamh" "const char *name"
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53function returns the value of an environment variable.
54Its semantics are similar to those of
55.Xr getenv 3 ,
56but it accesses the PAM
57context's environment list instead of the application's.
58.Pp
59.Sh RETURN VALUES
60The
61.Nm
62function returns
63.Dv NULL
64on failure.
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr getenv 3 ,
67.Xr pam 3 ,
68.Xr pam_getenvlist 3 ,
69.Xr pam_putenv 3 ,
70.Xr pam_setenv 3
71.Sh STANDARDS
72.Rs
73.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules"
74.%D "June 1997"
75.Re
76.Sh AUTHORS
77The
78.Nm
79function and this manual page were developed for the
80.Fx
81Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
82Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under
83DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
84.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
85as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
86