This manual page is for Mac OS X version 10.6

Reading manual pages

OPENPAM_LOG(3)                          BSD Library Functions Manual                          OPENPAM_LOG(3)

NAME
     openpam_log -- log a message through syslog

LIBRARY
     Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)

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

     void
     openpam_log(int level, const char *fmt, ...);

DESCRIPTION
     The openpam_log function logs messages using syslog(3).  It is primarily intended for internal use by
     the library and modules.

     The level argument indicates the importance of the message.  The following levels are defined:

     PAM_LOG_DEBUG       Debugging messages.  These messages are normally not logged unless the global inte-ger integer
                         ger variable _openpam_debug is set to a non-zero value, in which case they are
                         logged with a syslog(3) priority of LOG_DEBUG.

     PAM_LOG_VERBOSE     Information about the progress of the authentication process, or other non-essen-tial non-essential
                         tial messages.  These messages are logged with a syslog(3) priority of LOG_INFO.

     PAM_LOG_NOTICE      Messages relating to non-fatal errors.  These messages are logged with a syslog(3)
                         priority of LOG_NOTICE.

     PAM_LOG_ERROR       Messages relating to serious errors.  These messages are logged with a syslog(3)
                         priority of LOG_ERR.

     The remaining arguments are a printf(3) format string and the corresponding arguments.

SEE ALSO
     pam(3), printf(3), syslog(3)

STANDARDS
     The openpam_log function is an OpenPAM extension.

AUTHORS
     The openpam_log function and this 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.

BSD                                           December 21, 2007                                          BSD