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diff --git a/lib/libgssapi/gss_export_sec_context.3 b/lib/libgssapi/gss_export_sec_context.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f08d229 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libgssapi/gss_export_sec_context.3 @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Doug Rabson +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. 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However, this +.\" document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing +.\" the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other +.\" Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of +.\" developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for +.\" copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be +.\" followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than +.\" English. +.\" +.\" The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be +.\" revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns. +.\" +.\" This document and the information contained herein is provided on an +.\" "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING +.\" TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING +.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION +.\" HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. +.\" +.\" The following commands are required for all man pages. +.Dd November 12, 2005 +.Os +.Dt GSS_EXPORT_SEC_CONTEXT 3 PRM +.Sh NAME +.Nm gss_export_sec_context +.Nd Transfer a security context to another process +.\" This next command is for sections 2 and 3 only. +.\" .Sh LIBRARY +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In "gssapi/gssapi.h" +.Ft OM_uint32 +.Fo gss_export_sec_context +.Fa "OM_uint32 *minor_status" +.Fa "gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle" +.Fa "gss_buffer_t interprocess_token" +.Fc +.Sh DESCRIPTION +Provided to support the sharing of work between multiple processes. +This routine will typically be used by the context-acceptor, +in an application where a single process receives incoming connection +requests and accepts security contexts over them, +then passes the established context to one or more other processes for +message exchange. +.Fn gss_export_sec_context +deactivates the security context for the calling process and creates +an interprocess token which, +when passed to +.Fn gss_import_sec_context +in another process, +will re-activate the context in the second process. +Only a single instantiation of a given context may be active at any +one time; +a subsequent attempt by a context exporter to access the exported security context will fail. +.Pp +The implementation may constrain the set of processes by which the +interprocess token may be imported, +either as a function of local security policy, +or as a result of implementation decisions. +For example, +some implementations may constrain contexts to be passed only between +processes that run under the same account, +or which are part of the same process group. +.Pp +The interprocess token may contain security-sensitive information +(for example cryptographic keys). +While mechanisms are encouraged to either avoid placing such sensitive +information within interprocess tokens, +or to encrypt the token before returning it to the application, +in a typical object-library GSS-API implementation this may not be +possible. +Thus the application must take care to protect the interprocess token, +and ensure that any process to which the token is transferred is +trustworthy. +.Pp +If creation of the interprocess token is successful, +the implementation shall deallocate all process-wide resources +associated with the security context, +and set the context_handle to +.Dv GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT . +In the event of an error that makes it impossible to complete the +export of the security context, +the implementation must not return an interprocess token, +and should strive to leave the security context referenced by the +.Fa context_handle +parameter untouched. +If this is impossible, +it is permissible for the implementation to delete the security +context, +providing it also sets the +.Fa context_handle +parameter to +.Dv GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT . +.Sh PARAMETERS +.Bl -tag +.It minor_status +Mechanism specific status code. +.It context_handle +Context handle identifying the context to transfer. +.It interprocess_token +Token to be transferred to target process. +Storage associated with this token must be freed by the application +after use with a call to +.Fn gss_release_buffer . +.El +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Bl -tag +.It GSS_S_COMPLETE +Successful completion +.It GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED +The context has expired +.It GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT +The context was invalid +.It GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE +The operation is not supported +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr gss_import_sec_context 3 , +.Xr gss_release_buffer 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +.Bl -tag +.It RFC 2743 +Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 +.It RFC 2744 +Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings +.\" .Sh HISTORY +.El +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +manual page example first appeared in +.Fx 7.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +John Wray, Iris Associates |
