freebsd-dev/lib/librpc/secure_rpc/man/rpc_secure.3n
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.\" @(#)rpc_secure.3n 2.1 88/08/08 4.0 RPCSRC; from 1.19 88/06/24 SMI
.TH RPC 3N "16 February 1988"
.SH NAME
rpc_secure \- library routines for secure remote procedure calls
.SH SYNOPSIS AND DESCRIPTION
These routines are part of the RPC library. They implement DES
Authentication. See
.BR rpc (3N)
for further details about RPC.
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#include <rpc/rpc.h>
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\s-1AUTH\s0 *
authdes_create(name, window, syncaddr, ckey)
char *name;
unsigned window;
struct sockaddr_in *addr;
des_block *ckey;
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.IP
.B authdes_create(\|)
is the first of two routines which interface to the
.SM RPC
secure authentication system, known as
.SM DES
authentication.
The second is
.BR authdes_getucred(\|) ,
below. Note: the keyserver daemon
.BR keyserv (8C)
must be running for the
.SM DES
authentication system to work.
.IP
.BR authdes_create(\|) ,
used on the client side, returns an authentication handle that
will enable the use of the secure authentication system.
The first parameter
.I name
is the network name, or
.IR netname ,
of the owner of the server process. This field usually
represents a
.I hostname
derived from the utility routine
.BR host2netname ,
but could also represent a user name using
.BR user2netname .
The second field is window on the validity of
the client credential, given in seconds. A small
window is more secure than a large one, but choosing
too small of a window will increase the frequency of
resynchronizations because of clock drift. The third
parameter
.I syncaddr
is optional. If it is
.SM NULL\s0,
then the authentication system will assume
that the local clock is always in sync with the server's
clock, and will not attempt resynchronizations. If an address
is supplied, however, then the system will use the address
for consulting the remote time service whenever
resynchronization
is required. This parameter is usually the
address of the
.SM RPC
server itself. The final parameter
.I ckey
is also optional. If it is
.SM NULL\s0,
then the authentication system will
generate a random
.SM DES
key to be used for the encryption of credentials.
If it is supplied, however, then it will be used instead.
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authdes_getucred(adc, uid, gid, grouplen, groups)
struct authdes_cred *adc;
short *uid;
short *gid;
short *grouplen;
int *groups;
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.IP
.BR authdes_getucred(\|) ,
the second of the two
.SM DES
authentication routines,
is used on the server side for converting a
.SM DES
credential, which is
operating system independent, into a
.UX
credential. This routine differs from utility routine
.B netname2user
in that
.B authdes_getucred(\|)
pulls its information from a cache, and does not have to do a
Yellow Pages lookup every time it is called to get its information.
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host2netname(name, host, domain)
char *name;
char *host;
char *domain;
.fi
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.IP
Convert from a domain-specific hostname to an
operating-system independent netname. Return
.SM TRUE
if it succeeds and
.SM FALSE
if it fails. Inverse of
.BR netname2host(\|) .
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key_decryptsession(remotename, deskey)
char *remotename;
des_block *deskey;
.fi
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.IP
.B key_decryptsession(\|)
is an interface to the keyserver daemon, which is associated
with
.SM RPC\s0's
secure authentication system (\s-1DES\s0
authentication).
User programs rarely need to call it, or its associated routines
.BR key_encryptsession(\|) ,
.B key_gendes(\|)
and
.BR key_setsecret(\|) .
System commands such as
.B login
and the
.SM RPC
library are the main clients of these four routines.
.IP
.B key_decryptsession(\|)
takes a server netname and a des key, and decrypts the key by
using the the public key of the the server and the secret key
associated with the effective uid of the calling process. It
is the inverse of
.BR key_encryptsession(\|) .
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key_encryptsession(remotename, deskey)
char *remotename;
des_block *deskey;
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.IP
.B key_encryptsession(\|)
is a keyserver interface routine. It
takes a server netname and a des key, and encrypts
it using the public key of the the server and the secret key
associated with the effective uid of the calling process. It
is the inverse of
.BR key_decryptsession(\|) .
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key_gendes(deskey)
des_block *deskey;
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.IP
.B key_gendes(\|)
is a keyserver interface routine. It
is used to ask the keyserver for a secure conversation key.
Choosing one at \(lqrandom\(rq is usually not good enough,
because
the common ways of choosing random numbers, such as using the
current time, are very easy to guess.
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key_setsecret(key)
char *key;
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.IP
.B key_setsecret(\|)
is a keyserver interface routine. It is used to set the key for
the effective
.I uid
of the calling process.
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getnetname(name)
char name[\s-1MAXNETNAMELEN\s0];
.fi
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.IP
.B getnetname(\|)
installs the unique, operating-system independent netname of
the
caller in the fixed-length array
.IR name .
Returns
.SM TRUE
if it succeeds and
.SM FALSE
if it fails.
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netname2host(name, host, hostlen)
char *name;
char *host;
int hostlen;
.fi
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.IP
Convert from an operating-system independent netname to a
domain-specific hostname. Returns
.SM TRUE
if it succeeds and
.SM FALSE
if it fails. Inverse of
.BR host2netname(\|) .
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netname2user(name, uidp, gidp, gidlenp, gidlist)
char *name;
int *uidp;
int *gidp;
int *gidlenp;
int *gidlist;
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.IP
Convert from an operating-system independent netname to a
domain-specific user
.SM ID.
Returns
.SM TRUE
if it succeeds and
.SM FALSE
if it fails. Inverse of
.BR user2netname(\|) .
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user2netname(name, uid, domain)
char *name;
int uid;
char *domain;
.fi
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.IP
Convert from a domain-specific username to an operating-system
independent netname. Returns
.SM TRUE
if it succeeds and
.SM FALSE
if it fails. Inverse of
.BR netname2user(\|) .
.br
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR xdr (3N),
.BR keyserv (8C),
.BR rpc (3N)
.br
The following manuals:
.RS
.ft I
Remote Procedure Calls: Protocol Specification
.br
Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide
.br
rpcgen Programming Guide
.br
.ft R
.RE
.IR "\s-1RPC\s0: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification" ,
.SM RFC1050, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
.SM USC-ISI\s0.