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Name forms
There are two forms of name in GSS-API, Internal form and Contiguous
string ('flat') form. gss_export_name() and gss_import_name() can be
used to convert between the two forms.
· The contiguous string form is described by an oid specificing the
type and an octet string. A special form of the contiguous string
form is the exported name object. The exported name defined for each
mechanism, is something that can be stored and complared later. The
exported name is what should be used for ACLs comparisons.
· The Internal form
There is also special form of the Internal Name (IN), and that is the
Mechanism Name (MN). In the mechanism name all the generic information
is stripped of and only contain the information for one mechanism. In
GSS-API some function return MN and some require MN as input. Each of
these function is marked up as such.
Describe relationship between import_name, canonicalize_name,
export_name and friends.
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