Name
vxtryauth -- authenticate with PAM
Syntax
vxtryauth [-v]
Description
vxtryauth is a helper utility for programs and/or scripts which do not have intermediate access to the libvxdb C API, but still want to authenticate a user. vxtryauth accepts the username and password on standard input and the exit status contains the result of the authentication.
Options
-v |
Print error messages, should an error happen. |
Exit status
0
is returned on success, 127
if
there was a problem during option parsing, or any other value indicating the
PAM error code. If the -v
option is specified, additional error
messages -- if any -- will be printed to the standard error file
descriptor (stderr).