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NAME

6       internal_v_smechnameInternal names and mechanism names
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Name forms

10       There are two name representations in GSS-API: Internal form and
11       Contiguous string ('flat') form. Functions gss_export_name() and
12       gss_import_name() can be used to convert between the two forms.
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14       · The contiguous string form is described by an oid specificing the
15         type and an octet string. A special form of the contiguous string
16         form is the exported name object. The exported name defined for each
17         mechanism, is something that can be stored and compared later. The
18         exported name is what should be used for ACLs comparisons.
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20       · The Internal form is opaque to the application programmer and is
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23       · There is also a special form of the Internal Name (IN), and that is
24         the Mechanism Name (MN). In the mechanism name all the generic
25         information is stripped of and only contain the information for one
26         mechanism. In GSS-API some function return MN and some require MN as
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29       Describe relationship between import_name, canonicalize_name,
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31       ('contiguous' and 'flat' are gone, leaving just 'exported name token',
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36Version 7.7.0                   Fri Jun 7 2019         internal_v_smechname(3)