gss(1)

gss1

Generic security service command line interface

Usage

gss OPTIONS ...

Overview

Command line interface to GSS, used to explain error codes.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-h, --help

Print help and exit.

-V, --version

Print version and exit.

-l, --list-mechanisms

List information about supported mechanisms in a human readable format.

-m, --major=LONG

Describe a `major status' error code value.

-a, --accept-sec-context[=MECH]

Accept a security context as server. If MECH is not specified, no credentials will be acquired. Use "*" to use library default mechanism.

-i, --init-sec-context=MECH

Initialize a security context as client. MECH is the SASL name of mechanism, use -l to list supported mechanisms.

-n, --server-name=SERVICE@HOSTNAME

For -i and -a, set the name of the remote host. For example, "[email protected]".

-q, --quiet

Silent operation (default=off).

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8–11
  6. 12–13

--accept-sec-context since Debian 8 (Jessie); --init-sec-context since Debian 8 (Jessie); --list-mechanisms since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --server-name since Debian 8 (Jessie); -a since Debian 8 (Jessie); -i since Debian 8 (Jessie); -l since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -n since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Author

Written by Simon Josefsson.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to: [email protected]
GNU Generic Security Service home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/gss/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

From libgss-dev 1.0.4-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.