gss_display_status
- Convert a GSS-API status code to text
SYNOPSIS
#include <gssapi/gssapi.h> OM_uint32
Fo gss_display_status
Fa OM_uint32 *minor_status
Fa OM_uint32 status_value
Fa int status_type
Fa const gss_OID mech_type
Fa OM_uint32 *message_context
Fa gss_buffer_t status_string
Fc
DESCRIPTION
Allows an application to obtain a textual representation of a GSS-API
status code,
for display to the user or for logging purposes.
Since some status values may indicate multiple conditions,
applications may need to call
gss_display_status ();
multiple times,
each call generating a single text string.
The
Fa message_context
parameter is used by
gss_display_status ();
to store state information about which error messages have already
been extracted from a given
Fa status_value ;
Fa message_context
must be initialized to zero by the application prior to the first call,
and
gss_display_status ();
will return a non-zero value in this parameter if there are further
messages to extract.
The
Fa message_context
parameter contains all state information required by
gss_display_status ();
in order to extract further messages from the
Fa status_value ;
even when a non-zero value is returned in this parameter,
the application is not required to call
gss_display_status ();
again unless subsequent messages are desired.
The following code extracts all messages from a given status code and prints them to stderr:
Underlying mechanism (used to interpret a minor status value).
Supply
GSS_C_NO_OID
to obtain the system default.
message_context
Should be initialized to zero by the application prior to the first
call.
On return from
gss_display_status (,);
a non-zero status_value parameter indicates that additional messages
may be extracted from the status code via subsequent calls to
gss_display_status (,);
passing the same
Fa status_value ,
Fa status_type ,
Fa mech_type ,
and
Fa message_context
parameters.
status_string
Textual interpretation of the
Fa status_value .
Storage associated with this parameter must be freed by the
application after use with a call to
gss_release_buffer (.);
RETURN VALUES
GSS_S_COMPLETE
Successful completion
GSS_S_BAD_MECH
Indicates that translation in accordance with an unsupported mechanism
type was requested
GSS_S_BAD_STATUS
The status value was not recognized, or the status type was neither
GSS_C_GSS_CODE
nor
GSS_C_MECH_CODE
SEE ALSO
gss_release_buffer3
STANDARDS
RFC 2743
Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1
RFC 2744
Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
HISTORY
The
manual page example first appeared in
Fx 7.0 .
AUTHORS
John Wray, Iris Associates
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