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mech: GSS-API Mechanism and QOP files

Command to display mech manual in Linux: $ man 5 mech

NAME

mech qop - GSS-API Mechanism and QOP files

SYNOPSIS

/etc/gss/mech /etc/gss/qop

DESCRIPTION

The /etc/gss/mech file contains a list of installed GSS-API security mechanisms. Each line of the file either contains a comment if the first character is '#' or it contains five fields with the following meanings:

Name: The name of this GSS-API mechanism.
Object identifier: The OID for this mechanism.
Library: A shared library containing the implementation of this mechanism.
Kernel module (optional): A kernel module containing the implementation of this mechanism (not yet supported in FreeBSD).
Library options (optional): Optionsal parameters interpreted by the mechanism. Library options must be enclosed in brackets ([ ]) to differentiate them from the optional kernel module entry.

The /etc/gss/qop file contains a list of Quality of Protection values for use with GSS-API. Each line of the file either contains a comment if the first character is '#' or it contains three fields with the following meanings:

QOP string: The name of this Quality of Protection algorithm.
QOP value: The numeric value used to select this algorithm for use with GSS-API functions such as gss_get_mic3.
Mechanism name: The GSS-API mechanism name that corresponds to this algorithm.

EXAMPLES

This is a typical entry from /etc/gss/mech

kerberosv5      1.2.840.113554.1.2.2    /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.8    -

This is a typical entry from /etc/gss/qop

GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES         0x0100  kerberosv5

HISTORY

The manual page example first appeared in Fx 7.0 .

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by An Doug Rabson Aq dfr [at] FreeBSD.org .