From 81fda606363a54b5d7ba5086c1e127e7b373729e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dante Catalfamo
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:43:35 -0400
Subject: What does auth_clrenv do

---
 content/posts/WIP-how-bsd-authentication-works/index.org | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'content/posts')

diff --git a/content/posts/WIP-how-bsd-authentication-works/index.org b/content/posts/WIP-how-bsd-authentication-works/index.org
index 637f2cd..a0d7d4e 100644
--- a/content/posts/WIP-how-bsd-authentication-works/index.org
+++ b/content/posts/WIP-how-bsd-authentication-works/index.org
@@ -625,8 +625,9 @@
   #define	AUTH_ALLOW	(AUTH_OKAY | AUTH_ROOTOKAY | AUTH_SECURE)
   #+end_src
 
-  If the status results in a rejection, =auth_clearenv= is called on
-  =as=.
+  If the status results in a rejection, =auth_clrenv= is called with
+  =as=. This removes any requests the login script has made to set
+  environment variables from =as->spool=.
 
   =okay= is then returned to the caller.
 
-- 
cgit v1.2.3