OPENPAM_SET_FEATURE(3)

💅 OPENPAM_SET_FEATURE(3) — the openpam_set_feature manual page, bestie edition 🎀

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Library Functions Manual and it's all about openpam_set_feature from OpenPAM. buckle up, it's short but it's iconic ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

openpam_set_feature — turn an optional feature ON or OFF, no cap 🎚️

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

like, here's literally exactly how you call it:

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

int
openpam_set_feature(int feature, int onoff);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

⚠️ bestie, heads up: this function is experimental and may be modified or removed in a future release without prior warning. it's giving "living on the edge" energy, so don't build your whole personality on it 💀

so the way openpam_set_feature() works is: it sets the state of the feature you name in the feature argument to whatever value you pass in onoff. that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

want the list of recognized features? that lives over in openpam_get_feature(3) — go look there, iykyk 🫶

👑 RETURN VALUES 👑

openpam_set_feature() returns exactly one of these, periodt:

• [PAM_SUCCESS] — slay 💅 it worked, success.
• [PAM_BAD_FEATURE] — the feature is unrecognized or restricted 🙈 so like, nope, not that one.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, they're all part of the family:

• openpam_get_feature(3)
• pam(3)
• pam_strerror(3)

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

openpam_set_feature() is an OpenPAM extension — it's not some universal standard thing, it's OpenPAM's own little invention 💜

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

the openpam_set_feature() function and this very manual page were developed by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> — king behaviour, we love to see it 👑

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and that's the whole page bestie, hope it ate 💖 this particular copy comes to you from Debian, dated June 27, 2023 — catch you on the next man page, mwah 🧚✨