1ae771770SStanislav Sedov<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2ae771770SStanislav Sedov<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 3ae771770SStanislav Sedov<title>HeimdalGSS-APIlibrary: Internal names and mechanism names</title> 4ae771770SStanislav Sedov<link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 5ae771770SStanislav Sedov<link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 6ae771770SStanislav Sedov</head><body> 7ae771770SStanislav Sedov<p> 8ae771770SStanislav Sedov<a href="http://www.h5l.org/"><img src="http://www.h5l.org/keyhole-heimdal.png" alt="keyhole logo"/></a> 9ae771770SStanislav Sedov</p> 10ae771770SStanislav Sedov<!-- end of header marker --> 11ae771770SStanislav Sedov<!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.6 --> 12ae771770SStanislav Sedov<div class="navigation" id="top"> 13ae771770SStanislav Sedov <div class="tabs"> 14ae771770SStanislav Sedov <ul> 15ae771770SStanislav Sedov <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> 16ae771770SStanislav Sedov <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> 17ae771770SStanislav Sedov <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> 18ae771770SStanislav Sedov </ul> 19ae771770SStanislav Sedov </div> 20ae771770SStanislav Sedov</div> 21ae771770SStanislav Sedov<div class="contents"> 22ae771770SStanislav Sedov<h1><a class="anchor" name="internalVSmechname">Internal names and mechanism names </a></h1><h2><a class="anchor" name="gssapi_api_INvsMN"> 23ae771770SStanislav SedovName forms</a></h2> 24ae771770SStanislav SedovThere are two forms of name in GSS-API, Internal form and Contiguous string ("flat") form. gss_export_name() and <a class="el" href="group__gssapi.html#g0afe06fd5264ebfb93ecca4bcc70895b">gss_import_name()</a> can be used to convert between the two forms.<p> 25ae771770SStanislav Sedov<ul> 26ae771770SStanislav Sedov<li>The contiguous string form is described by an oid specificing the type and an octet string. A special form of the contiguous string form is the exported name object. The exported name defined for each mechanism, is something that can be stored and complared later. The exported name is what should be used for ACLs comparisons.</li></ul> 27ae771770SStanislav Sedov<p> 28ae771770SStanislav Sedov<ul> 29ae771770SStanislav Sedov<li>The Internal form</li></ul> 30ae771770SStanislav Sedov<p> 31ae771770SStanislav SedovThere is also special form of the Internal Name (IN), and that is the Mechanism Name (MN). In the mechanism name all the generic information is stripped of and only contain the information for one mechanism. In GSS-API some function return MN and some require MN as input. Each of these function is marked up as such.<p> 32ae771770SStanislav SedovDescribe relationship between import_name, canonicalize_name, export_name and friends. </div> 33ae771770SStanislav Sedov<hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small> 34*cf771f22SStanislav SedovGenerated on Wed Jan 11 14:07:43 2012 for HeimdalGSS-APIlibrary by <a href="http://www.doxygen.org/index.html"><img src="doxygen.png" alt="doxygen" align="middle" border="0"></a> 1.5.6</small></address> 35ae771770SStanislav Sedov</body> 36ae771770SStanislav Sedov</html> 37
