AUTHSRV(2) AUTHSRV(2)
NAME
authdial, passtokey, nvcsum, readnvram, convT2M, convM2T,
convTR2M, convM2TR, convA2M, convM2A, convPR2M, convM2PR,
_asgetticket, _asrdresp - routines for communicating with
authentication servers
SYNOPSIS
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <authsrv.h>
int authdial(char *netroot, char *ad);
int passtokey(char key[DESKEYLEN], char *password)
uchar nvcsum(void *mem, int len)
int readnvram(Nvrsafe *nv, int flag);
int convT2M(Ticket *t, char *msg, char *key)
void convM2T(char *msg, Ticket *t, char *key)
int convA2M(Authenticator *a, char *msg, char *key)
void convM2A(char *msg, Authenticator *a, char *key)
int convTR2M(Ticketreq *tr, char *msg)
void convM2TR(char *msg, Ticketreq *tr)
int convPR2M(Passwordreq *pr, char *msg, char *key)
void convM2PR(char *msg, Passwordreq *pr, char *key)
int _asgetticket(int fd, char *trbuf, char *tbuf);
int _asrdresp(int fd, char *buf, int len);
DESCRIPTION
Authdial dials an authentication server over the network
rooted at net, default /net. The authentication domain, ad,
specifies which server to call. If ad is non-nil, the con-
nection server cs (see ndb(8)) is queried for an entry which
contains authdom=ad or dom=ad, the former having precedence,
and which also contains an auth attribute. If it finds nei-
ther, it tries p9auth.ad in DNS as the authentication
server. The string dialed is then netroot!server!ticket
where server is the value of the auth attribute. If no
entry is found, the error string is set to ``no
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authentication server found'' and -1 is returned. If
authdom is nil, the string netroot!$auth!ticket is used to
make the call.
Passtokey converts password into a DES key and stores the
result in key. It returns 0 if password could not be con-
verted, and 1 otherwise.
Readnvram reads authentication information into the struc-
ture:
struct Nvrsafe
{
char machkey[DESKEYLEN];/* was file server's authid's des key */
uchar machsum;
char authkey[DESKEYLEN];/* authid's des key from password */
uchar authsum;
/*
* file server config string of device holding full configuration;
* secstore key on non-file-servers.
*/
char config[CONFIGLEN];
uchar configsum;
char authid[ANAMELEN];/* auth userid, e.g., bootes */
uchar authidsum;
char authdom[DOMLEN]; /* auth domain, e.g., cs.bell-labs.com */
uchar authdomsum;
};
On Sparc, MIPS, and SGI machines this information is in
non-volatile ram, accessible in the file #r/nvram. On x86s
and Alphas readnvram successively opens the following areas
stopping with the first to succeed:
- the partition named by the $nvram environment variable
(commonly set via plan9.ini(8))
then for each controller X listed in #S/sdctl and each drive
number n less than 0x10
- the partition #S/sdXn/nvram
- a file called plan9.nvr in the partition #S/sdXn/9fat
- a file called plan9.nvr on a DOS floppy in drive 0
- a file called plan9.nvr on a DOS floppy in drive 1
The nvcsums of the fields machkey, authid, and authdom must
match their respective checksum or that field is zeroed. If
flag is NVwrite or at least one checksum fails and flag is
NVwriteonerr, readnvram will prompt for new values on
#c/cons and then write them back to the storage area. If
flag is NVwritemem, readnvram will write the values in *nv
back to the storage area.
ConvT2M, convA2M, convTR2M, and convPR2M convert tickets,
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authenticators, ticket requests, and password change request
structures into transmittable messages. ConvM2T, convM2A,
convM2TR, and convM2PR are used to convert them back. Key
is used for encrypting the message before transmission and
decrypting after reception.
The routine _asgetresp receives either a character array or
an error string. On error, it sets errstr and returns -1.
If successful, it returns the number of bytes received.
The routine _asgetticket sends a ticket request message and
then uses _asgetresp to recieve an answer.
SOURCE
/sys/src/libauthsrv
SEE ALSO
passwd(1), cons(3), dial(2), authsrv(6),
DIAGNOSTICS
These routines set errstr. Integer-valued functions return
-1 on error.
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