rpcauth_get_pseudoflavor(9)

💅 NAME 💅

rpcauth_get_pseudoflavor — check if security flavor is supported. Okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page, bestie, and it’s literally the flavor-support detective. 🔍✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rpc_authflavor_t rpcauth_get_pseudoflavor (rpc_authflavor_t flavor ,
struct rpcsec_gss_info *info );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• flavor — a security flavor. that’s the thing getting checked, periodt.
• info — a GSS mech OID, quality of protection, and service value.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so rpcauth_get_pseudoflavor verifies that an appropriate kernel module is available or already loaded. No cap. Then it returns an equivalent pseudoflavor — or RPC_AUTH_MAXFLAVOR if "flavor" is not supported locally. That’s the whole plot, and it ate. 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./net/sunrpc/auth.c
• rpcauth_get_gssinfo(9)
• rpcauth_marshcred(9)
• rpcauth_wrap_req_encode(9)
• rpcauth_wrap_req(9)
• rpcauth_checkverf(9)
• rpcauth_unwrap_resp_decode(9)
• rpcauth_unwrap_resp(9)

xoxo, signed off from the ./net/sunrpc source/version, October 2026 🌈🫶