LOGIN_CAP(3)

NAME
login_getclass, login_getcapbool, login_getcapnum, login_getcapsize, login_getcapstr, login_getcaptime, login_close, setclasscontext, setusercontext - query login.conf database about a user class

LIBRARY
libutil

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <login_cap.h>
login_cap_t *
login_getclass(char *class);
int
login_getcapbool(login_cap_t *lc, const char *cap, u_int def);
quad_t
login_getcapnum(login_cap_t *lc, const char *cap, quad_t def, quad_t err);
quad_t
login_getcapsize(login_cap_t *lc, const char *cap, quad_t def, quad_t err);
char *
login_getcapstr(login_cap_t *lc, const char *cap, char *def, char *err);
quad_t
login_getcaptime(login_cap_t *lc, const char *cap, quad_t def, quad_t err);
void
login_close(login_cap_t *lc);
int
setclasscontext(const char *class, u_int flags);
int
setusercontext(login_cap_t *lc, const struct passwd *pwd, uid_t uid, u_int flags);

DESCRIPTION
The login_getclass() function extracts the entry specified by class (or default if class is NULL or the empty string) from /etc/login.conf (see login.conf(5)). If the entry is found, a login_cap_t pointer is returned. NULL is returned if the user class is not found. When the login_cap_t structure is no longer needed, it should be freed by the login_close() function.

Once lc has been returned by login_getclass(), any of the other login_*() functions may be called.

The login_getcapnum(), login_getcapsize(), login_getcapstr(), and login_getcaptime() functions all query the database entry for a field named cap. If the field is found, its value is returned. If the field is not found, the value specified by def is returned. If an error is encountered while trying to find the field, err is returned. See login.conf(5) for a discussion of the various textual forms the value may take. The login_getcapbool() function is slightly different. It returns def if no capabilities were found for this class (typically meaning that the default class was used and the /etc/login.conf file is missing). It returns a non-zero value if cap, with no value, was found, zero otherwise.

The setclasscontext() function takes class, the name of a user class, and sets the resources defined by that class according to flags. Only the LOGIN_SETPATH, LOGIN_SETPRIORITY, LOGIN_SETRESOURCES, and LOGIN_SETUMASK bits are used. (See setusercontext() below). It returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.

The setusercontext() function sets the resources according to flags. The lc argument, if not NULL, contains the class information that should be used. The pwd argument, if not NULL, provides information about the user. Both lc and pwd cannot be NULL. The uid argument is used in place of the user id contained in the pwd structure when calling setuid(2). The various bits available to be or-ed together to make up flags are:

LOGIN_SETGID
    Set the group id. Requires the pwd field be specified.

LOGIN_SETGROUPS
    Set the group membership list by calling initgroups(3). Requires the pwd field be specified.

LOGIN_SETGROUP
    Set the group id and call initgroups(3). Requires the pwd field be specified.

LOGIN_SETLOGIN
    Sets the login name by setlogin(2). Requires the pwd field be specified.

LOGIN_SETPATH
    Sets the PATH environment variable.

LOGIN_SETPRIORITY
    Sets the priority by setpriority(2).

LOGIN_SETRESOURCES
    Sets the various system resources by setrlimit(2).

LOGIN_SETUMASK
    Sets the umask by umask(2).

LOGIN_SETUSER
    Sets the user id to uid by setuid(2).

LOGIN_SETENV
    Sets the environment variables as defined by the setenv keyword, by setenv(3).

LOGIN_SETALL
    Sets all of the above.

SEE ALSO
setlogin(2), setpriority(2), setrlimit(2), setuid(2), umask(2), initgroups(3), secure_path(3), login.conf(5)

HISTORY
The login_getclass family of functions are largely based on the BSD/OS implementation of same, and appeared in NetBSD 1.5 by kind permission.

CAVEATS
The string returned by login_getcapstr() is allocated via malloc(3) when the specified capability is present and thus it is the responsibility of the caller to free() this space. However, if the capability was not found or an error occurred and def or err (whichever is relevant) are non-NULL the returned value is simply what was passed in to login_getcapstr(). Therefore it is not possible to blindly free() the return value without first checking it against def and err.

The same warnings set forth in setlogin(2) apply to setusercontext() when the LOGIN_SETLOGIN flag is used. Specifically, changing the login name affects all processes in the current session, not just the current process. See setlogin(2) for more information.