svc_set_client(9)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

svc_set_client — Assign an appropriate 'auth_domain' as the client 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum svc_auth_status svc_set_client (struct svc_rqst *rqstp );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rqstp — RPC execution context 🌀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The return values are literally:

• SVC_OK — Client was found and assigned 🎉
• SVC_DENY — Client was explicitly denied 🚫
• SVC_DROP — Ignore this request 🙈
• SVC_CLOSE — Ignore this request and close the connection 💀

SVC_CLOSE is out here ignoring the request and closing the connection — dramatic, but that's exactly the energy, periodt. 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• Kernel file: ./net/sunrpc/svcauth.c 📁
• svc_authenticate(9)
• svc_authorise(9)
• svc_auth_flavor(9)
• svcauth_map_clnt_to_svc_cred_local(9)
• auth_domain_cleanup(9)

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