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NAME

GSSAPI - Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library

SYNOPSIS

  use GSSAPI;

  # lots of complicated stuff here

DESCRIPTION

This module gives access to the routines of the GSSAPI library, as described in rfc2743 and rfc2744 and implemented by the Kerberos-1.2 distribution from MIT.

The API presented by this module is a mildly object oriented reinterpretation of the C API, where opaque C structures are Perl objects, but the style of function call has been left mostly untouched. As a result, most routines modify one or more of the parameters passed to them, reflecting the C call-by-reference (or call-by-value-return) semantics.

All users of this module are therefore strongly advised to localize all usage of these routines to minimize pain if and when the API changes.

SEE ALSO

RFC2743 RFC2744 GSSAPI::Status(3p) GSSAPI::OID(3p) GSSAPI::OID::Set(3p) perl(1)

EXPORT

  GSS_C_ACCEPT
  GSS_C_AF_APPLETALK
  GSS_C_AF_BSC
  GSS_C_AF_CCITT
  GSS_C_AF_CHAOS
  GSS_C_AF_DATAKIT
  GSS_C_AF_DECnet
  GSS_C_AF_DLI
  GSS_C_AF_DSS
  GSS_C_AF_ECMA
  GSS_C_AF_HYLINK
  GSS_C_AF_IMPLINK
  GSS_C_AF_INET
  GSS_C_AF_LAT
  GSS_C_AF_LOCAL
  GSS_C_AF_NBS
  GSS_C_AF_NS
  GSS_C_AF_NULLADDR
  GSS_C_AF_OSI
  GSS_C_AF_PUP
  GSS_C_AF_SNA
  GSS_C_AF_UNSPEC
  GSS_C_AF_X25
  GSS_C_ANON_FLAG
  GSS_C_BOTH
  GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_MASK
  GSS_C_CALLING_ERROR_OFFSET
  GSS_C_CONF_FLAG
  GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG
  GSS_C_EMPTY_BUFFER
  GSS_C_GSS_CODE
  GSS_C_INDEFINITE
  GSS_C_INITIATE
  GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG
  GSS_C_MECH_CODE
  GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG
  GSS_C_NO_BUFFER
  GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS
  GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT
  GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL
  GSS_C_NO_NAME
  GSS_C_NO_OID
  GSS_C_NO_OID_SET
  GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG
  GSS_C_QOP_DEFAULT
  GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG
  GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_MASK
  GSS_C_ROUTINE_ERROR_OFFSET
  GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG
  GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_MASK
  GSS_C_SUPPLEMENTARY_OFFSET
  GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG
  GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS
  GSS_S_BAD_MECH
  GSS_S_BAD_NAME
  GSS_S_BAD_NAMETYPE
  GSS_S_BAD_QOP
  GSS_S_BAD_SIG
  GSS_S_BAD_STATUS
  GSS_S_CALL_BAD_STRUCTURE
  GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_READ
  GSS_S_CALL_INACCESSIBLE_WRITE
  GSS_S_COMPLETE
  GSS_S_CONTEXT_EXPIRED
  GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
  GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED
  GSS_S_CRED_UNAVAIL
  GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL
  GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN
  GSS_S_DUPLICATE_ELEMENT
  GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN
  GSS_S_FAILURE
  GSS_S_GAP_TOKEN
  GSS_S_NAME_NOT_MN
  GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT
  GSS_S_NO_CRED
  GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN
  GSS_S_UNAUTHORIZED
  GSS_S_UNAVAILABLE
  GSS_S_UNSEQ_TOKEN

Exportable functions

    $status = indicate_mechs($oidset)

    # Constant OIDs provided:
    $oid = gss_nt_user_name;
    $oid = gss_nt_machine_uid_name;
    $oid = gss_nt_string_uid_name;
    $oid = gss_nt_service_name;
    $oid = gss_nt_exported_name;
    $oid = gss_nt_service_name_v2;
    $oid = gss_nt_krb5_name;
    $oid = gss_nt_krb5_principal;
    $oid = gss_mech_krb5;
    $oid = gss_mech_krb5_old;
    $oid = gss_mech_krb5_v2;

    # Constant OID sets provided:
    $oidset = gss_mech_set_krb5;
    $oidset = gss_mech_set_krb5_old;
    $oidset = gss_mech_set_krb5_both;
    $oidset = gss_mech_set_krb5_v2;
    $oidset = gss_mech_set_krb5_v1v2;

All other functions are class or instance methods.

AUTHOR

Philip Guenther <pguen@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2005 Philip Guenther. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.