krb5plugi...table_desc(3)

✨ krb5plugi...table_desc — Heimdal Kerberos 5 library ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is short but it's iconic 💖 (the manual name is right there in the header, btw: Heimdal Kerberos 5 library, no cap)

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💫 NAME 💫

krb5plugin_db_ftable_desc — the whole entire description of the krb5 DB plugin facility, fr fr 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <db_plugin.h>

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👑 Detailed Description 👑

Description of the krb5 DB plugin facility.

So here's the tea ☕: the DB rule inside krb5_aname_to_lname(3) is pluggable. Like, swappable. Main character energy. 🔥

The plugin is named KRB5_PLUGIN_DB (which literally is the string 'krb5_db_plug'), and it has exactly one minor version, bestie, not a whole collection:

• KRB5_PLUGIN_DB_VERSION_0 — and that's 0, the number, zero, nada, one single version 💅

The plugin itself is a data symbol that points at a structure of type krb5plugin_db_ftable_desc, and that struct has three fields. Three. A tiny little trio. Obsessed 🫶

🦋 Parameters 🦋

• init — the plugin initialization function (go peek at krb5-plugin(7) if you wanna know more, iykyk)
• minor_version — the plugin minor version number, which is 0
• fini — the plugin finalization function

And the vibes on what these two entry points are supposed to do? 😌

• The init entry point is expected to call heim_db_register(). That's its whole job, that's the assignment, periodt.
• The fini entry point is expected to do nothing. Literally nothing. It's giving "I'm just here for the vibes" 💀 and honestly? Valid.

ngl bestie, "expected to" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here — that's the spec's word, not mine, so don't come for me 🙈

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🎀 Author 🎀

Generated automatically by Doxygen for Heimdal Kerberos 5 library from the source code. So like… nobody hand-wrote this, it manifested itself ✨🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it up 🍓💜 mwah 💋 — this was Version 7.8.0, dated Tue Nov 15 2022, and the title up top is krb5plugi...table_desc(3), in case the truncation jumpscared you 😭 (it's fine, it's just a long name, she's shy 🌈)