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gss_process_context_token

Section: Generic Security Services API Library Functions (3GSS)
Updated: 15 Jan 2003
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NAME

gss_process_context_token - pass asynchronous token to security service  

SYNOPSIS

cc -flag ...  file ...-lgss [library ...] 
#include <gssapi/gssapi.h>

OM_uint32 gss_process_context_token(OM_uint32 *minor_status, const gss_ctx_id_t context_handle, const gss_buffer_t token_buffer);  

DESCRIPTION

The gss_process_context_token() function provides a way to pass an asynchronous token to the security service. Most context-level tokens are emitted and processed synchronously by gss_init_sec_context() and gss_accept_sec_context(), and the application is informed as to whether further tokens are expected by the GSS_C_CONTINUE_NEEDED major status bit. Occasionally, a mechanism might need to emit a context-level token at a point when the peer entity is not expecting a token. For example, the initiator's final call to gss_init_sec_context() may emit a token and return a status of GSS_S_COMPLETE, but the acceptor's call to gss_accept_sec_context() might fail. The acceptor's mechanism might want to send a token containing an error indication to the initiator, but the initiator is not expecting a token at this point, believing that the context is fully established. gss_process_context_token() provides a way to pass such a token to the mechanism at any time.

This function is provided for compatibility with the GSS-API version 1. Because gss_delete_sec_context() no longer returns a valid output_token to be sent to gss_process_context_token(), applications using a newer version of the GSS-API do not need to rely on this function.  

PARAMETERS

The parameter descriptions for gss_process_context_token() are as follows:

minor_status A mechanism-specific status code.

context_handle Context handle of context on which token is to be processed.

token_buffer Token to process.

 

ERRORS

gss_process_context_token() returns one of the following status codes:

GSS_S_COMPLETE Successful completion.

GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN Indicates that consistency checks performed on the token failed.

GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT The context_handle did not refer to a valid context.

GSS_S_FAILURE The underlying mechanism detected an error for which no specific GSS status code is defined. The mechanism-specific status code reported by means of the minor_status parameter details the error condition.

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWgss (32-bit)
SUNWgssx (64-bit)
MT LevelSafe

 

SEE ALSO

gss_accept_sec_context(3GSS), gss_delete_sec_context(3GSS), gss_init_sec_context(3GSS), attributes(5)

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Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
PARAMETERS
ERRORS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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