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36.Dd June 16, 2005
37.Dt PAM_GETENVLIST 3
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm pam_getenvlist
41.Nd returns a list of all the PAM environment variables
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libpam
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In sys/types.h
46.In security/pam_appl.h
47.Ft "char **"
48.Fn pam_getenvlist "pam_handle_t *pamh"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Nm
52function returns a copy of the given PAM context's
53environment list as a pointer to an array of strings.
54The last element in the array is
55.Dv NULL .
56The pointer is suitable for assignment to
57.Va environ .
58.Pp
59The array and the strings it lists are allocated using
60.Xr malloc 3 ,
61and
62should be released using
63.Xr free 3
64after use:
65.Pp
66.Bd -literal
67    char **envlist, **env;
68
69    envlist = environ;
70    environ = pam_getenvlist(pamh);
71    /* do something nifty */
72    for (env = environ; *env != NULL; env++)
73        free(*env);
74    free(environ);
75    environ = envlist;
76.Ed
77.Sh RETURN VALUES
78The
79.Nm
80function returns
81.Dv NULL
82on failure.
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr free 3 ,
85.Xr malloc 3 ,
86.Xr pam 3 ,
87.Xr pam_getenv 3 ,
88.Xr pam_putenv 3 ,
89.Xr pam_setenv 3 ,
90.Xr environ 7
91.Sh STANDARDS
92.Rs
93.%T "X/Open Single Sign-On Service (XSSO) - Pluggable Authentication Modules"
94.%D "June 1997"
95.Re
96.Sh AUTHORS
97The
98.Nm
99function and this manual page were developed for the
100.Fx
101Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
102Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under
103DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
104.Pq Dq CBOSS ,
105as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.
106