
MECH(5)                     BSD File Formats Manual                    MECH(5)

NAME
     mech, qop -- GSS-API Mechanism and QOP files

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/gss/mech /etc/gss/qop

DESCRIPTION
     The /etc/gss/mech file contains a list of installed GSS-API security
     mechanisms.  Each line of the file either contains a comment if the first
     character is '#' or it contains five fields with the following meanings:

     Name          The name of this GSS-API mechanism.

     Object identifier
                   The OID for this mechanism.

     Library       A shared library containing the implementation of this
                   mechanism.

     Kernel module (optional)
                   A kernel module containing the implementation of this mech-
                   anism (not yet supported in FreeBSD).

     Library options (optional)
                   Optionsal parameters interpreted by the mechanism. Library
                   options must be enclosed in brackets ([ ]) to differentiate
                   them from the optional kernel module entry.

     The /etc/gss/qop file contains a list of Quality of Protection values for
     use with GSS-API.  Each line of the file either contains a comment if the
     first character is '#' or it contains three fields with the following
     meanings:

     QOP string    The name of this Quality of Protection algorithm.

     QOP value     The numeric value used to select this algorithm for use
                   with GSS-API functions such as gss_get_mic(3).

     Mechanism name
                   The GSS-API mechanism name that corresponds to this algo-
                   rithm.

EXAMPLES
     This is a typical entry from /etc/gss/mech:

     kerberosv5      1.2.840.113554.1.2.2    /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.8    -

     This is a typical entry from /etc/gss/qop:

     GSS_KRB5_CONF_C_QOP_DES         0x0100  kerberosv5

HISTORY
     The mech manual page example first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD                            November 14, 2005                           BSD
