RPC_GSS_QOP_TO_NUM(3)

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✨ NAME ✨

rpc_gss_qop_to_num — Convert a quality of protection name to number. That’s the whole name-and-purpose combo, and it ate 💅

🫶 LIBRARY 🫶

RPC GSS-API Authentication Library (librpcsec_gss, -lrpcsec_gss). That’s the library, periodt.

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

Include the header and use this signature, exactly:

#include <rpc/rpcsec_gss.h>

bool_t
rpc_gss_qop_to_num(const char *qop, const char *mech, u_int *num_ret);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie, here’s the tea: this function looks up a quality of protection by name, and it does that by reading the file /etc/gss/qop. No cap.

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• qop — the quality of protection to search for.
• mech — the mechanism name to search for.
• number_ret — If the quality of protection is found, the corresponding number is returned in *num_ret.

💖 RETURN VALUES 💖

If the value is found, TRUE is returned, otherwise FALSE. That’s the return-value tea 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

gssapi(3), rpc(3), and rpcsec_gss(3) — go read those too, bestie 🌈

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The rpc_gss_qop_to_num function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0. A historical slay 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>. Periodt 🎀

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