rpc_gss_oid_to_mech(3)

rpc_gss_oid_to_mech3

Convert a mechanism name to a gss-api oid

Usage

#include <rpc/rpcsec_gss.h>

bool_t

rpc_gss_oid_to_mech(gss_OID oid, const char **mech_ret);

Library

library “librpcsec_gss”

Overview

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

Parameters

oid

The mechanism oid to search for

mech_ret

If the mechanism is found, the corresponding mechanism name is returned in *mech_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_oid_to_mech 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.