[Out of date; needs updating for thread safety test support. -- KR 2005-02-09] # Copyright 1993 by OpenVision Technologies, Inc. # # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software # and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, # provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and # that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in # supporting documentation, and that the name of OpenVision not be used # in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software # without specific, written prior permission. OpenVision makes no # representations about the suitability of this software for any # purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. # # OPENVISION DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, # INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO # EVENT SHALL OPENVISION BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR # CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF # USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR # OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. This directory contains a sample GSS-API client and server application. In addition to serving as an example of GSS-API programming, this application is also intended to be a tool for testing the performance of GSS-API implementations. Each time the client is invoked, it performs one or more exchanges with the server. Each exchange with the server consists primarily of the following steps: 1. A TCP/IP connection is established. 2. (optional, on by default) The client and server establish a GSS-API context, and the server prints the identify of the client. / 3. The client sends a message to the server. The message may / be plaintext, cryptographically "signed" but not encrypted, | or encrypted (default). | 0 or | 4. The server decrypts the message (if necessary), verifies more | its signature (if there is one) and prints it. times| | 5. The server sends either a signature block (the default) or an | empty token back to the client to acknowledge the message. \ \ 6. If the server sent a signature block, the client verifies it and prints a message indicating that it was verified. 7. The client sends an empty block to the server to tell it that the exchange is finished. 8. The client and server close the TCP/IP connection and destroy the GSS-API context. The client also supports the -v1 flag which uses an older exchange format compatible with previous releases of Kerberos and with samples shipped in the Microsoft SDK. The server's command line usage is gss-server [-port port] [-verbose] [-once] [-inetd] [-export] [-logfile file] service_name where service_name is a GSS-API service name of the form "service@host" (or just "service", in which case the local host name is used). The command-line options have the following meanings: -port The TCP port on which to accept connections. Default is 4444. -once Tells the server to exit after a single exchange, rather than persisting. -inetd Tells the server that it is running out of inetd, so it should interact with the client on stdin rather than binding to a network port. Implies "-once". -export Tells the server to test the gss_export_sec_context function after establishing a context with a client. -logfile The file to which the server should append its output, rather than sending it to stdout. The client's command line usage is gss-client [-port port] [-mech mechanism] [-d] [-f] [-q] [-seq] [-noreplay] [-nomutual] [-ccount count] [-mcount count] [-na] [-nw] [-nx] [-nm] host service_name msg where host is the host running the server, service_name is the service name that the server will establish connections as (if you don't specify the host name in the service name when running gss-server, and it's running on a different machine from gss-client, make sure to specify the server's host name in the service name you specify to gss-client!) and msg is the message. The command-line options have the following meanings: -port The TCP port to which to connect. Default is 4444. -mech The OID of the GSS-API mechanism to use. -d Tells the client to delegate credentials to the server. For the Kerberos GSS-API mechanism, this means that a forwardable TGT will be sent to the server, which will put it in its credential cache (you must have acquired your tickets with "kinit -f" for this to work). -seq Tells the client to enforce ordered message delivery via sequencing. -noreplay Tells the client to disable the use of replay detection. -nomutual Tells the client to disable the use of mutual authentication. -f Tells the client that the "msg" argument is actually the name of a file whose contents should be used as the message. -q Tells the client to be quiet, i.e., to only print error messages. -ccount Specifies how many sessions the client should initiate with the server (the "connection count"). -mcount Specifies how many times the message should be sent to the server in each session (the "message count"). -na Tells the client not to do any authentication with the server. Implies "-nw", "-nx" and "-nm". -nw Tells the client not to "wrap" messages. Implies "-nx". -nx Tells the client not to encrypt messages. -nm Tells the client not to ask the server to send back a cryptographic checksum ("MIC"). To run the server on a host, you need to make sure that the principal corresponding to service_name is in the default keytab on the server host, and that the gss-server process can read the keytab. For example, the service name "host@server" corresponds to the Kerberos principal "host/server.domain.com@REALM". This sample application uses the following GSS-API functions: gss_accept_sec_context gss_inquire_names_for_mech gss_acquire_cred gss_oid_to_str gss_delete_sec_context gss_release_buffer gss_display_name gss_release_cred gss_display_status gss_release_name gss_export_sec_context gss_release_oid gss_get_mic gss_release_oid_set gss_import_name gss_str_to_oid gss_import_sec_context gss_unwrap gss_init_sec_context gss_verify_mic gss_inquire_context gss_wrap This application was originally written by Barry Jaspan of OpenVision Technologies, Inc. It was updated significantly by Jonathan Kamens of OpenVision Technologies, Inc. $Id$