1.\" Generated from pam_getenv.c by gendoc.pl 2.\" $Id: pam_getenv.c 648 2013-03-05 17:54:27Z des $ 3.Dd September 12, 2014 4.Dt PAM_GETENV 3 5.Os 6.Sh NAME 7.Nm pam_getenv 8.Nd retrieve the value of a PAM environment variable 9.Sh LIBRARY 10.Lb libpam 11.Sh SYNOPSIS 12.In sys/types.h 13.In security/pam_appl.h 14.Ft "const char *" 15.Fn pam_getenv "pam_handle_t *pamh" "const char *name" 16.Sh DESCRIPTION 17The 18.Fn pam_getenv 19function returns the value of an environment variable. 20Its semantics are similar to those of 21.Xr getenv 3 , 22but it accesses the PAM 23context's environment list instead of the application's. 24.Pp 25.Sh RETURN VALUES 26The 27.Fn pam_getenv 28function returns 29.Dv NULL 30on failure. 31.Sh SEE ALSO 32.Xr getenv 3 , 33.Xr pam 3 , 34.Xr pam_getenvlist 3 , 35.Xr pam_putenv 3 , 36.Xr pam_setenv 3 37.Sh STANDARDS 38.Rs 39.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules" 40.%D "June 1997" 41.Re 42.Sh AUTHORS 43The 44.Fn pam_getenv 45function and this manual page were 46developed for the 47.Fx 48Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the 49Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under 50DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 51.Pq Dq CBOSS , 52as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. 53.Pp 54The OpenPAM library is maintained by 55.An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@des.no . 56