OPENPAM_GET_OPTION(3)

✨ OPENPAM_GET_OPTION(3) ✨

ok so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual and it's literally about one little function, bestie. sit down, it's gonna be quick but cute 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

openpam_get_option — returns the value of a module option. that's it. that's the whole job. she's focused, she's efficient, she's an icon 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

like, the way you summon her is:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <security/pam_appl.h>
#include <security/openpam.h>

const char *
openpam_get_option(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *option);

all three includes, no skimping, she needs them all fr fr 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: openpam_get_option() returns the value of the option you name — but like, specifically in the context of the currently executing service module. it's not a global thing, she's very much in her context era 😌

and if the option isn't set? or if there's literally no module currently executing at all? she returns NULL. no drama, no error page, just NULL. vibe check failed, moving on 💀

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⭐ RETURN VALUES ⭐

openpam_get_option() returns NULL on failure. that's the whole section. short, sweet, and slightly ominous ngl 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• openpam_set_option(3) — her partner in crime, the setter to her getter 💖
• pam(3) — the whole big picture, go read it, iykyk

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👑 STANDARDS 👑

openpam_get_option() is an OpenPAM extension ✨ so like, don't expect everybody else's PAM to have her, she's OpenPAM-exclusive and honestly that's main character energy.

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

the openpam_get_option() function and this very manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc., under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (“CBOSS”), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program. okay that's a lot of words but we respect the pipeline 🫡

the OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> — shoutout to the maintainer, keeping the lights on 💜

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap. tiny function, big legacy. go call openpam_get_option() responsibly 🧚

— with love from the Debian crew, dated June 27, 2023, signed off on OPENPAM_GET_OPTION(3) 🍓✨