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Identification and authentication facility

The Identification and Authentication Facility (IAF) is a framework for doing identification and authentication that separates the mechanisms, or schemes, from the clients and services being protected. The IAF consists of:

This mechanism is employed by the Connection Server and by SAF port monitors to authenticate clients to services (and vice versa, in the case of the cr1 scheme). However, applications may also call the invoke(3iac) function to perform authentication using cr1 and other schemes, and they may set and retrieve information with the attribute-value manipulation functions.

These interfaces are found in libiaf.so.


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