<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="pam_sm_acct_mgmt">
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>pam_sm_acct_mgmt</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="source">Linux-PAM</refmiscinfo>
    <refmiscinfo class="manual">Linux-PAM Manual</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv xml:id="pam_sm_acct_mgmt-name">
    <refname>pam_sm_acct_mgmt</refname>
    <refpurpose>PAM service function for account management</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

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  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <funcsynopsis xml:id="pam_sm_acct_mgmt-synopsis">
      <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;security/pam_modules.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
      <funcprototype>
        <funcdef>int <function>pam_sm_acct_mgmt</function></funcdef>
        <paramdef>pam_handle_t *<parameter>pamh</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>int <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>int <parameter>argc</parameter></paramdef>
        <paramdef>const char **<parameter>argv</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>
    </funcsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>


  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_sm_acct_mgmt-description">
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>
      The <function>pam_sm_acct_mgmt</function> function is the service
      module's implementation of the
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>pam_acct_mgmt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry> interface.
    </para>
    <para>
      This function performs the task of establishing whether the user is
      permitted to gain access at this time. It should be understood that
      the user has previously been validated by an authentication
      module. This function checks for other things. Such things might be:
      the time of day or the date, the terminal line, remote hostname, etc.
      This function may also determine things like the expiration on
      passwords, and respond that the user change it before continuing.
    </para>
    <para>
       Valid flags, which may be logically OR'd with
       <emphasis>PAM_SILENT</emphasis>, are:
    </para>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_SILENT</term>
        <listitem>
           <para>
             Do not emit any messages.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_DISALLOW_NULL_AUTHTOK</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Return <emphasis remap="B">PAM_AUTH_ERR</emphasis> if the
            database of authentication tokens for this authentication
            mechanism has a <emphasis>NULL</emphasis> entry for the user.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_sm_acct_mgmt-return_values">
    <title>RETURN VALUES</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_ACCT_EXPIRED</term>
        <listitem>
           <para>
             User account has expired.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_AUTH_ERR</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Authentication failure.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_NEW_AUTHTOK_REQD</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The user's authentication token has expired. Before calling
            this function again the application will arrange for a new
            one to be given. This will likely result in a call to
            <function>pam_sm_chauthtok()</function>.

          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_PERM_DENIED</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            Permission denied.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_SUCCESS</term>
        <listitem>
           <para>
             The authentication token was successfully updated.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>PAM_USER_UNKNOWN</term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            User unknown to password service.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 xml:id="pam_sm_acct_mgmt-see_also">
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>pam</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>pam_acct_mgmt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>pam_sm_chauthtok</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>pam_strerror</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
      <citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>PAM</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>