svcauth_unix_accept(9)

🎀 svcauth_unix_accept 🎀

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's all about svcauth_unix_accept(9) — yes bestie, manual name folded right in near the top, we love a tidy intro 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

svcauth_unix_accept — decode and validate an incoming RPC_AUTH_SYS credential. that's the whole assignment, no cap.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

enum svc_auth_status svcauth_unix_accept (struct svc_rqst *rqstp );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• rqstp — RPC transaction. that's the one and only argument, periodt.

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the return values are literally the main character here, bestie:

• SVC_OK — both credential and verifier are valid. slay.
• SVC_DENIED — credential or verifier is not valid. not slay.
• SVC_GARBAGE — failed to decode credential or verifier. the decode just did not eat.
• SVC_CLOSE — temporary failure. hold up, try again energy.

also, rqstp->rq_auth_stat is set as mandated by RFC 5531. that's the rule, fr fr 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
• sunrpc_nl_unix_gid_get_reqs_dumpit(9)
• sunrpc_nl_parse_one_unix_gid(9)
• sunrpc_nl_unix_gid_set_reqs_doit(9)
• sunrpc_nl_cache_flush_doit(9)
• svcauth_null_accept(9)
• svcauth_tls_accept(9)
• sunrpc_nl_ip_map_get_reqs_dumpit(9)
• sunrpc_nl_parse_one_ip_map(9)
• sunrpc_nl_ip_map_set_reqs_doit(9)

like, go peek at these if you're doing the reading thing 👑✨

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💖 okay that's the page, bestie — source/version is ./net/sunrpc, dated October 2026, for svcauth_unix_accept(9). mwah 💖