NAME pam_set_item - set authentication information CONTENTS Library Synopsis Description Return Values See Also Standards Authors LIBRARY .Lb libpam SYNOPSIS .In sys/types.h .In security/pam_appl.h "int" pam_set_item "pam_handle_t *pamh" "int item_type" "const void *item" DESCRIPTION The pam_set_item function sets the item specified by the item_type argument to a copy of the object pointed to by the item argument. The item is stored in the PAM context specified by the pamh argument. See pam_get_item(3) for a list of recognized item types. RETURN VALUES The pam_set_item function returns one of the following values: