NAME

rpc_gss_set_svc_name —

Associate a GSS-API service principal with an RPC service

LIBRARY

RPC GSS-API Authentication Library (librpcsec_gss, -lrpcsec_gss)

#include <rpc/rpcsec_gss.h>

bool_t
rpc_gss_set_svc_name(const char *principal, const char *mechanism, u_int req_time, u_int program, u_int version);

This function registers a service principal which will be used to authenticate RPCSEC_GSS security contexts for a given RPC program and version.

principal: A string representing the service principal in the form “service@hostname”
mechanism: The name of the security mechanism
req_time: The time in seconds that the service credentials should remain valid. See gss_acquire_cred(3) for more details. principal.
program: RPC program number for this service
version: RPC program version for this service

Returns TRUE if the service principal was registered or FALSE otherwise.

The rpc_gss_set_svc_name function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>.