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gss_delete_sec_context

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

gss_delete_sec_context - delete a GSS-API security context  

SYNOPSIS

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

OM_uint32 gss_delete_sec_context(OM_uint32 *minor_status, gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle, gss_buffer_t output_token);  

DESCRIPTION

Use the gss_delete_sec_context() function to delete a security context. The gss_delete_sec_context() function will delete the local data structures associated with the specified security context. You may not obtain further security services that use the context specified by context_handle.

In addition to deleting established security contexts, gss_delete_sec_context() will delete any half-built security contexts that result from incomplete sequences of calls to gss_init_sec_context(3GSS) and gss_accept_sec_context(3GSS).

The Solaris implementation of the GSS-API retains the output_token parameter for compatibility with version 1 of the GSS-API. Both peer applications should invoke gss_delete_sec_context(), passing the value GSS_C_NO_BUFFER to the output_token parameter; this indicates that no token is required. If the application passes a valid buffer to gss_delete_sec_context(), it will return a zero-length token, indicating that no token should be transferred by the application.  

PARAMETERS

The parameter descriptions for gss_delete_sec_context() follow:

minor_status A mechanism specific status code.

context_handle Context handle identifying specific context to delete. After deleting the context, the GSS-API will set context_handle to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT.

output_token A token to be sent to remote applications that instructs them to delete the context.

 

ERRORS

gss_delete_sec_context() may return the following status codes:

GSS_S_COMPLETE
 Successful completion.

GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT No valid context was supplied.

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_init_sec_context(3GSS), attributes(5)

Solaris Security for Developers Guide


 

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PARAMETERS
ERRORS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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