Manpages - pam_getenv.3

pam_getenv - get a PAM environment variable

  #include <security/pam_appl.h>

const char *pam_getenv(pam_handle_t **/pamh/, const char */name/);*

The pam_getenv function searches the PAM environment list as associated with the handle pamh for an item that matches the string pointed to by name and returns a pointer to the value of the environment variable. The application is not allowed to free the data.

The pam_getenv function returns NULL on failure.

*pam_start*(3), *pam_getenvlist*(3), *pam_putenv*(3), *pam*(8)