iscsi_session_password_get(3)

💅 iscsi_session_password_get(3) — API Manual realness ✨

okay so bestie, buckle up, this is one of those tiny functions that does exactly one thing and does it slay. It lives in the API Manual, and it's here to hand you the auth password of a session. No cap, that's the whole vibe.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iscsi_session_password_get — grab the authentication password of the session you point at 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char * iscsi_session_password_get (struct iscsi_session *se);

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• se — a pointer to struct iscsi_session, the main character of this whole operation 🫶. but um. if this pointer is NULL, your program gets terminated by assert. literally not a drill 😭 so maybe don't do that.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically it retrieves the authentication password of the iSCSI session you specified ✨ that's it, that's the function.

rn, open-iscsi only supports the CHAP authentication method — that's the only auth glow-up available 💅 and this setting is controlled in iscsid.conf:

🍓 RETURN 🍓

it returns a const char * 👑

• empty string if you're not using CHAP authentication, or if it failed to read the authentication information 🙈
• no need to free this memory, bestie — the resources get freed by iscsi_session_free or iscsi_sessions_free. the cleanup is handled, you can relax 🧚

fr fr do not free() this yourself, let the session functions take care of it 💀

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k that's the whole page ✨ this cutie dropped September 2026, straight from the iscsi_session_password_iscsi_session_password_get(3) corner of the API Manual — go get that password, icon 👑💜