rpc_gss_mech_to_oid(3)

rpc_gss_mech_to_oid3

Convert a mechanism name to a gss-api oid

Usage

#include <rpc/rpcsec_gss.h>

bool_t

rpc_gss_mech_to_oid(const char *mech, gss_OID *oid_ret);

Library

library “librpcsec_gss”

Overview

This function looks up a mechanism by name by reading the file /etc/gss/mech.

Parameters

mech

The mechanism name to search for

oid_ret

If the mechanism is found, the corresponding GSS-API oid is returned in *oid_ret

Return values

If the mechanism is found, TRUE is returned, otherwise FALSE.

Releases

39 releases since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE; the text changed 26 times.

  1. 8.0
  2. 8.1
  3. 8.2
  4. 8.3
  5. 8.4
  6. 9.0
  7. 9.1
  8. 9.2
  9. 9.3
  10. 10.0
  11. 10.1
  12. 10.2
  13. 10.3
  14. 10.4
  15. 11.0
  16. 11.1
  17. 11.2
  18. 11.3
  19. 11.4
  20. 12.0
  21. 12.1
  22. 12.2
  23. 12.3
  24. 12.4
  25. 13.0–13.2
  26. 13.3–13.5
  27. 14.0–16.0

History

The rpc_gss_mech_to_oid function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

Authors

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.