NAME

sec_cred_get_initiator — Returns the privilege attributes of the initiator of a delegation chain

Synopsis

sec_cred_pa_handle_t sec_cred_get_initiator(
rpc_authz_cred_handle_t callers_identity,
error_status_t ∗status);

Parameters

Input

callers_identity
A credential handle of type rpc_authz_cred_handle_t.  This handle is supplied as output of the rpc_binding_inq_auth_caller() call. 

Output

statusA pointer to the completion status.  On successful completion, status is assigned error_status_ok. 

Description

The sec_cred_get_initiator() routine returns a handle to the the privilege attributes of the initiator of a delegation chain that performed an authenticated RPC operation. 

The credential handle identified by callers_identity contains authentication and authorization information for all delegates in the chain.  This call returns a handle (sec_cred_pa_handle_t) to the privilege attributes of the client that initiated the delegation chain.  The sec_cred_pa_handle_t returned by this call is used in other sec_cred_get... calls to obtain privilege attribute information for the initiator. 

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

Errors

The following describes a partial list of errors that might be returned.  Refer to the OSF DCE Problem Determination Guide for complete descriptions of all error messages. 

sec_cred_s_invalid_auth_handle

error_status_ok

Related Information

Functions: sec_intro(3sec), rpc_binding_inq_auth_caller(3rpc), sec_cred_get_deleg_restrictions(3sec), sec_cred_get_delegation_type(3sec), sec_cred_get_extended_attrs(3sec), sec_cred_get_opt_restrictions(3sec), sec_cred_get_pa_date, sec_cred_get_req_restrictions(3sec), sec_cred_get_tgt_restrictions(3sec), sec_cred_get_v1_pac(3sec).