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GSS_ACCEPT_SEC_CONTEXT(3)     Programmer's Manual    GSS_ACCEPT_SEC_CONTEXT(3)

NAME
     gss_accept_sec_context — Accept a security context initiated by a peer
     application

SYNOPSIS
     #include <gssapi/gssapi.h>

     OM_uint32
     gss_accept_sec_context(OM_uint32 *minor_status,
	 gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle,
	 const gss_cred_id_t acceptor_cred_handle,
	 const gss_buffer_t input_token_buffer,
	 const gss_channel_bindings_t input_chan_bindings,
	 const gss_name_t *src_name, gss_OID *mech_type,
	 gss_buffer_t output_token, OM_uint32 *ret_flags, OM_uint32 *time_rec,
	 gss_cred_id_t *delegated_cred_handle);

DESCRIPTION
     Allows a remotely initiated security context between the application and
     a remote peer to be established.  The routine may return a output_token
     which should be transferred to the peer application, where the peer
     application will present it to gss_init_sec_context(3).  If no token need
     be sent, gss_accept_sec_context() will indicate this by setting the
     length field of the output_token argument to zero.	 To complete the con‐
     text establishment, one or more reply tokens may be required from the
     peer application; if so, gss_accept_sec_context() will return a status
     flag of GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, in which case it should be called again
     when the reply token is received from the peer application, passing the
     token to gss_accept_sec_context() via the input_token parameters.

     Portable applications should be constructed to use the token length and
     return status to determine whether a token needs to be sent or waited
     for.  Thus a typical portable caller should always invoke
     gss_accept_sec_context() within a loop:

     gss_ctx_id_t context_hdl = GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT;

     do {
       receive_token_from_peer(input_token);
       maj_stat = gss_accept_sec_context(&min_stat,
					 &context_hdl,
					 cred_hdl,
					 input_token,
					 input_bindings,
					 &client_name,
					 &mech_type,
					 output_token,
					 &ret_flags,
					 &time_rec,
					 &deleg_cred);
       if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
	 report_error(maj_stat, min_stat);
       };
       if (output_token->length != 0) {
	 send_token_to_peer(output_token);

	 gss_release_buffer(&min_stat, output_token);
       };
       if (GSS_ERROR(maj_stat)) {
	 if (context_hdl != GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT)
	   gss_delete_sec_context(&min_stat,
				  &context_hdl,
				  GSS_C_NO_BUFFER);
	 break;
       };
     } while (maj_stat & GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED);

     Whenever the routine returns a major status that includes the value
     GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the context is not fully established and the fol‐
     lowing restrictions apply to the output parameters:

     The value returned via the time_rec parameter is undefined Unless the
     accompanying ret_flags parameter contains the bit GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG,
     indicating that per-message services may be applied in advance of a suc‐
     cessful completion status, the value returned via the mech_type parameter
     may be undefined until the routine returns a major status value of
     GSS_S_COMPLETE.

     The values of the GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG, GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG, GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG,
     GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG, GSS_C_CONF_FLAG, GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and
     GSS_C_ANON_FLAG bits returned via the ret_flags parameter should contain
     the values that the implementation expects would be valid if context
     establishment were to succeed.

     The values of the GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG and GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG bits within
     ret_flags should indicate the actual state at the time
     gss_accept_sec_context() returns, whether or not the context is fully
     established.

     Although this requires that GSS-API implementations set the
     GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG in the final ret_flags returned to a caller (i.e.
     when accompanied by a GSS_S_COMPLETE status code), applications should
     not rely on this behavior as the flag was not defined in Version 1 of the
     GSS-API. Instead, applications should be prepared to use per-message ser‐
     vices after a successful context establishment, according to the
     GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG and GSS_C_CONF_FLAG values.

     All other bits within the ret_flags argument should be set to zero.
     While the routine returns GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED, the values returned via
     the ret_flags argument indicate the services that the implementation
     expects to be available from the established context.

     If the initial call of gss_accept_sec_context() fails, the implementation
     should not create a context object, and should leave the value of the
     context_handle parameter set to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT to indicate this.	 In
     the event of a failure on a subsequent call, the implementation is per‐
     mitted to delete the "half-built" security context (in which case it
     should set the context_handle parameter to GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT ), but the
     preferred behavior is to leave the security context (and the context_han‐
     dle parameter) untouched for the application to delete (using
     gss_delete_sec_context(3) ).

     During context establishment, the informational status bits
     GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN and GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN indicate fatal errors, and GSS-
     API mechanisms should always return them in association with a routine
     error of GSS_S_FAILURE. This requirement for pairing did not exist in
     version 1 of the GSS-API specification, so applications that wish to run
     over version 1 implementations must special-case these codes.

PARAMETERS
     context_handle
		   Context handle for new context.  Supply GSS_C_NO_CONTEXT
		   for first call; use value returned in subsequent calls.
		   Once gss_accept_sec_context() has returned a value via this
		   parameter, resources have been assigned to the correspond‐
		   ing context, and must be freed by the application after use
		   with a call to gss_delete_sec_context(3).

     acceptor_cred_handle
		   Credential handle claimed by context acceptor.  Specify
		   GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL to accept the context as a default
		   principal.  If GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL is specified, but no
		   default acceptor principal is defined, GSS_S_NO_CRED will
		   be returned.

     input_token_buffer
		   Token obtained from remote application.

     input_chan_bindings
		   Application-specified bindings.  Allows application to
		   securely bind channel identification information to the
		   security context.  If channel bindings are not used, spec‐
		   ify GSS_C_NO_CHANNEL_BINDINGS.

     src_name	   Authenticated name of context initiator.  After use, this
		   name should be deallocated by passing it to
		   gss_release_name(3).	 If not required, specify NULL.

     mech_type	   Security mechanism used.  The returned OID value will be a
		   pointer into static storage, and should be treated as read-
		   only by the caller (in particular, it does not need to be
		   freed).  If not required, specify NULL.

     output_token  Token to be passed to peer application.  If the length
		   field of the returned token buffer is 0, then no token need
		   be passed to the peer application.  If a non-zero length
		   field is returned, the associated storage must be freed
		   after use by the application with a call to
		   gss_release_buffer(3).

     ret_flags	   Contains various independent flags, each of which indicates
		   that the context supports a specific service option.	 If
		   not needed, specify NULL.  Symbolic names are provided for
		   each flag, and the symbolic names corresponding to the
		   required flags should be logically-ANDed with the ret_flags
		   value to test whether a given option is supported by the
		   context.  The flags are:

		   GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG

		       True   Delegated credentials are available via the del‐
			      egated_cred_handle parameter

		       False  No credentials were delegated

		   GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG

		       True   Remote peer asked for mutual authentication

		       False  Remote peer did not ask for mutual authentica‐
			      tion

		   GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG

		       True   Replay of protected messages will be detected

		       False  Replayed messages will not be detected

		   GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG

		       True   Out-of-sequence protected messages will be
			      detected

		       False  Out-of-sequence messages will not be detected

		   GSS_C_CONF_FLAG

		       True   Confidentiality service may be invoked by call‐
			      ing the gss_wrap(3) routine

		       False  No confidentiality service (via gss_wrap(3))
			      available.  gss_wrap(3) will provide message
			      encapsulation, data-origin authentication and
			      integrity services only.

		   GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG

		       True   Integrity service may be invoked by calling
			      either gss_get_mic(3) or gss_wrap(3) routines.

		       False  Per-message integrity service unavailable.

		   GSS_C_ANON_FLAG

		       True   The initiator does not wish to be authenticated;
			      the src_name parameter (if requested) contains
			      an anonymous internal name.

		       False  The initiator has been authenticated normally.

		   GSS_C_PROT_READY_FLAG

		       True   Protection services (as specified by the states
			      of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are
			      available if the accompanying major status
			      return value is either GSS_S_COMPLETE or
			      GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED.

		       False  Protection services (as specified by the states
			      of the GSS_C_CONF_FLAG and GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG) are
			      available only if the accompanying major status
			      return value is GSS_S_COMPLETE.

		   GSS_C_TRANS_FLAG

		       True   The resultant security context may be trans‐
			      ferred to other processes via a call to
			      gss_export_sec_context(3).

		       False  The security context is not transferable.

		   All other bits should be set to zero.

     time_rec	   Number of seconds for which the context will remain valid.
		   Specify NULL if not required.

     delegated_cred_handle
		   Credential handle for credentials received from context
		   initiator.  Only valid if GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG in ret_flags is
		   true, in which case an explicit credential handle (i.e. not
		   GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL) will be returned; if false,
		   gss_accept_context() will set this parameter to
		   GSS_C_NO_CREDENTIAL.	 If a credential handle is returned,
		   the associated resources must be released by the applica‐
		   tion after use with a call to gss_release_cred(3).  Specify
		   NULL if not required.

     minor_status  Mechanism specific status code.

RETURN VALUES
     GSS_S_CONTINUE_NEEDED
		   Indicates that a token from the peer application is
		   required to complete the context, and that
		   gss_accept_sec_context must be called again with that
		   token.

     GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_TOKEN
		   Indicates that consistency checks performed on the
		   input_token failed.

     GSS_S_DEFECTIVE_CREDENTIAL
		   Indicates that consistency checks performed on the creden‐
		   tial failed.

     GSS_S_NO_CRED
		   The supplied credentials were not valid for context accep‐
		   tance, or the credential handle did not reference any cre‐
		   dentials.

     GSS_S_CREDENTIALS_EXPIRED
		   The referenced credentials have expired.

     GSS_S_BAD_BINDINGS
		   The input_token contains different channel bindings to
		   those specified via the input_chan_bindings parameter.

     GSS_S_NO_CONTEXT
		   Indicates that the supplied context handle did not refer to
		   a valid context.

     GSS_S_BAD_SIG
		   The input_token contains an invalid MIC.

     GSS_S_OLD_TOKEN
		   The input_token was too old.	 This is a fatal error during
		   context establishment.

     GSS_S_DUPLICATE_TOKEN
		   The input_token is valid, but is a duplicate of a token
		   already processed.  This is a fatal error during context
		   establishment.

     GSS_S_BAD_MECH
		   The received token specified a mechanism that is not sup‐
		   ported by the implementation or the provided credential.

SEE ALSO
     gss_delete_sec_context(3), gss_export_sec_context(3), gss_get_mic(3),
     gss_init_sec_context(3), gss_release_buffer(3), gss_release_cred(3),
     gss_release_name(3), gss_wrap(3)

STANDARDS
     RFC 2743	   Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Ver‐
		   sion 2, Update 1

     RFC 2744	   Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings

HISTORY
     The gss_accept_sec_context function first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
     John Wray, Iris Associates

COPYRIGHT
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BSD			       January 26, 2010				   BSD
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