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DCE 1.1: Authentication and Security Services
Copyright © 1997 The Open Group

NAME

sec_cred_is_authenticated- Returns true if the supplied credentials are authenticated and false if they are not

SYNOPSIS

#include <dce/sec_cred.h>

boolean32 sec_cred_is_authenticated (
    rpc_authz_cred_handle_t callers_identity,
    error_status_t *status );


PARAMETERS

Input

callers_identity

A handle of type rpc_authz_cred_handle_t to the credentials to check for authentication. This handle is supplied as output of the rpc_binding_inq_auth_caller() call.

Output

status

A pointer to the completion status. On successful completion, status is assigned error_status_ok. Otherwise, it returns an error.


DESCRIPTION

The sec_cred_is_authenticated() routine returns true if the credentials identified by callers_identity are authenticated or false if they are not.

Before you execute this call, you must execute an rpc_binding_inq_auth_caller() call to obtain an rpc_authz_cred_handle_t for the callers_identity argument.

FILES

/usr/include/dce/sec_cred.idl

The idl file from which dce/sec_cred.h was derived.

RETURN VALUES

The routine returns TRUE if the credentials are authenticated; FALSE if they are not.

SEE ALSO

Functions: rpc_binding_inq_auth_caller().
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