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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-10-15 17:27:45 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-10-15 17:27:45 +0000
commitc0772bf3dbe20cd87c6e5d7f522bc15e676b461a (patch)
treece462db2ba3745c82ba3613cc6bebc6f007cf995 /lib/libc
parent81d27f458e9a0fed8e369d3d8508e9df694e8e29 (diff)
Note that when calling auth_verify() with a style and/or username,
the old values in the auth session will get freed and the new values added.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/authenticate.37
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/authenticate.3 b/lib/libc/gen/authenticate.3
index f1617e87497..e6d6a4c4cc7 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/authenticate.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/authenticate.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: authenticate.3,v 1.4 2002/03/16 18:30:35 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: authenticate.3,v 1.5 2002/10/15 17:27:44 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Berkeley Software Design, Inc. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ and
.Ar name
arguments, if not
.Dv NULL .
+Values for the style and user name in an existing BSD Authentication
+session will be replaced and the old values freed (if the calling program
+has obtained pointers to the style or user name via
+.Xr auth_getitem 3 ,
+those pointers will become invalid).
The variable arguments are passed to
.Fn auth_call
via the