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-.\" Title: pam_sm_authenticate
-.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author]
-.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-.\" Date: 05/07/2023
-.\" Manual: Linux-PAM Manual
-.\" Source: Linux-PAM
-.\" Language: English
-.\"
-.TH "PAM_SM_AUTHENTICATE" "3" "05/07/2023" "Linux\-PAM" "Linux\-PAM Manual"
-.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
-.\" * Define some portability stuff
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-.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
-.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
-.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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-.el .ds Aq '
-.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
-.\" * set default formatting
-.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
-.\" disable hyphenation
-.nh
-.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
-.ad l
-.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
-.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
-.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
-.SH "NAME"
-pam_sm_authenticate \- PAM service function for user authentication
-.SH "SYNOPSIS"
-.sp
-.ft B
-.nf
-#include <security/pam_modules\&.h>
-.fi
-.ft
-.HP \w'int\ pam_sm_authenticate('u
-.BI "int pam_sm_authenticate(pam_handle_t\ *" "pamh" ", int\ " "flags" ", int\ " "argc" ", const\ char\ **" "argv" ");"
-.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-.PP
-The
-\fBpam_sm_authenticate\fR
-function is the service module\*(Aqs implementation of the
-\fBpam_authenticate\fR(3)
-interface\&.
-.PP
-This function performs the task of authenticating the user\&.
-.PP
-Valid flags, which may be logically OR\*(Aqd with
-\fIPAM_SILENT\fR, are:
-.PP
-PAM_SILENT
-.RS 4
-Do not emit any messages\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK
-.RS 4
-Return
-\fBPAM_AUTH_ERR\fR
-if the database of authentication tokens for this authentication mechanism has a
-\fINULL\fR
-entry for the user\&. Without this flag, such a
-\fINULL\fR
-token will lead to a success without the user being prompted\&.
-.RE
-.SH "RETURN VALUES"
-.PP
-PAM_AUTH_ERR
-.RS 4
-Authentication failure\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-PAM_CRED_INSUFFICIENT
-.RS 4
-For some reason the application does not have sufficient credentials to authenticate the user\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL
-.RS 4
-The modules were not able to access the authentication information\&. This might be due to a network or hardware failure etc\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-PAM_SUCCESS
-.RS 4
-The authentication token was successfully updated\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-PAM_USER_UNKNOWN
-.RS 4
-The supplied username is not known to the authentication service\&.
-.RE
-.PP
-PAM_MAXTRIES
-.RS 4
-One or more of the authentication modules has reached its limit of tries authenticating the user\&. Do not try again\&.
-.RE
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.PP
-\fBpam\fR(3),
-\fBpam_authenticate\fR(3),
-\fBpam_sm_setcred\fR(3),
-\fBpam_strerror\fR(3),
-\fBPAM\fR(8)