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NAME

       mech, qop - security mechanism and quality of protection (QOP) files

SYNOPSIS


DESCRIPTION

       The  and files contain tables showing installed security mechanisms and the Quality of Protection (QOP) associated with them, respectively.
       These files are accessed by GSS-API calls; see gssapi(5).

       As security mechanisms are installed on the system, entries are added to these two files.

       Contents of these files may be accessed either manually or programmatically; for example, manually with cat(1) or more(1), or  programmati-
       cally with either rpc_gss_get_mechanisms(3N) or rpc_gss_get_mech_info(3N).

   /etc/gss/mech
       The file contains these fields:

	      mechanism name	  ASCII string representing the mechanism.

	      object identifier   OID for this mechanism.

	      shared library	  Shared library which implements the services provided by this mechanism.

	      kernel module	  Kernel module which implements the services provided by this mechanism.

   /etc/gss/qop
       The file contains these fields:

	      QOP string	Name, in ASCII, of this Quality of Protection.

	      QOP value 	Numeric value by which QOP can be identified.

	      mechanism name	ASCII string representing the mechanism with which this QOP is associated.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: A Typical Entry in

       Example 2: A Typical Entry in

AUTHOR

       and were developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       rpc(3N), rpc_gss_get_mechanisms(3N), rpc_gss_get_mech_info(3N), rpcsec_gss(3N), gssapi(5).

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