1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> 3<title>HeimdalGSS-APIlibrary: Internal names and mechanism names</title> 4<link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 5<link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 6</head><body> 7<p> 8<a href="http://www.h5l.org/"><img src="http://www.h5l.org/keyhole-heimdal.png" alt="keyhole logo"/></a> 9</p> 10<!-- end of header marker --> 11<!-- Generated by Doxygen 1.5.6 --> 12<div class="navigation" id="top"> 13 <div class="tabs"> 14 <ul> 15 <li><a href="index.html"><span>Main Page</span></a></li> 16 <li><a href="pages.html"><span>Related Pages</span></a></li> 17 <li><a href="modules.html"><span>Modules</span></a></li> 18 </ul> 19 </div> 20</div> 21<div class="contents"> 22<h1><a class="anchor" name="internalVSmechname">Internal names and mechanism names </a></h1><h2><a class="anchor" name="gssapi_api_INvsMN"> 23Name forms</a></h2> 24There 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> 25<ul> 26<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> 27<p> 28<ul> 29<li>The Internal form</li></ul> 30<p> 31There 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> 32Describe relationship between import_name, canonicalize_name, export_name and friends. </div> 33<hr size="1"><address style="text-align: right;"><small> 34Generated 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> 35</body> 36</html> 37
