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+GSSAPI mechanism interface
+==========================
+
+The GSSAPI library in MIT krb5 can load mechanism modules to augment
+the set of built-in mechanisms.
+
+.. note: The GSSAPI loadable mechanism interface does not follow the
+ normal conventions for MIT krb5 pluggable interfaces.
+
+A mechanism module is a Unix shared object or Windows DLL, built
+separately from the krb5 tree. Modules are loaded according to the
+``/etc/gss/mech`` or ``/etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf`` config files, as
+described in :ref:`gssapi_plugin_config`.
+
+For the most part, a GSSAPI mechanism module exports the same
+functions as would a GSSAPI implementation itself, with the same
+function signatures. The mechanism selection layer within the GSSAPI
+library (called the "mechglue") will dispatch calls from the
+application to the module if the module's mechanism is requested. If
+a module does not wish to implement a GSSAPI extension, it can simply
+refrain from exporting it, and the mechglue will fail gracefully if
+the application calls that function.
+
+The mechglue does not invoke a module's **gss_add_cred**,
+**gss_add_cred_from**, **gss_add_cred_impersonate_name**, or
+**gss_add_cred_with_password** function. A mechanism only needs to
+implement the "acquire" variants of those functions.
+
+A module does not need to coordinate its minor status codes with those
+of other mechanisms. If the mechglue detects conflicts, it will map
+the mechanism's status codes onto unique values, and then map them
+back again when **gss_display_status** is called.
+
+
+Interposer modules
+------------------
+
+The mechglue also supports a kind of loadable module, called an
+interposer module, which intercepts calls to existing mechanisms
+rather than implementing a new mechanism.
+
+An interposer module must export the symbol **gss_mech_interposer**
+with the following signature::
+
+ gss_OID_set gss_mech_interposer(gss_OID mech_type);
+
+This function is invoked with the OID of the interposer mechanism as
+specified in ``/etc/gss/mech`` or in a ``/etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf``
+file, and returns a set of mechanism OIDs to be interposed. The
+returned OID set must have been created using the mechglue's
+gss_create_empty_oid_set and gss_add_oid_set_member functions.
+
+An interposer module must use the prefix ``gssi_`` for the GSSAPI
+functions it exports, instead of the prefix ``gss_``.
+
+An interposer module can link against the GSSAPI library in order to
+make calls to the original mechanism. To do so, it must specify a
+special mechanism OID which is the concatention of the interposer's
+own OID byte string and the original mechanism's OID byte string.
+
+Since **gss_accept_sec_context** does not accept a mechanism argument,
+an interposer mechanism must, in order to invoke the original
+mechanism's function, acquire a credential for the concatenated OID
+and pass that as the *verifier_cred_handle* parameter.
+
+Since **gss_import_name**, **gss_import_cred**, and
+**gss_import_sec_context** do not accept mechanism parameters, the SPI
+has been extended to include variants which do. This allows the
+interposer module to know which mechanism should be used to interpret
+the token. These functions have the following signatures::
+
+ OM_uint32 gssi_import_sec_context_by_mech(OM_uint32 *minor_status,
+ gss_OID desired_mech, gss_buffer_t interprocess_token,
+ gss_ctx_id_t *context_handle);
+
+ OM_uint32 gssi_import_name_by_mech(OM_uint32 *minor_status,
+ gss_OID mech_type, gss_buffer_t input_name_buffer,
+ gss_OID input_name_type, gss_name_t output_name);
+
+ OM_uint32 gssi_import_cred_by_mech(OM_uint32 *minor_status,
+ gss_OID mech_type, gss_buffer_t token,
+ gss_cred_id_t *cred_handle);
+
+To re-enter the original mechanism when importing tokens for the above
+functions, the interposer module must wrap the mechanism token in the
+mechglue's format, using the concatenated OID. The mechglue token
+formats are:
+
+* For **gss_import_sec_context**, a four-byte OID length in big-endian
+ order, followed by the mechanism OID, followed by the mechanism
+ token.
+
+* For **gss_import_name**, the bytes 04 01, followed by a two-byte OID
+ length in big-endian order, followed by the mechanism OID, followed
+ by the bytes 06, followed by the OID length as a single byte,
+ followed by the mechanism OID, followed by the mechanism token.
+
+* For **gss_import_cred**, a four-byte OID length in big-endian order,
+ followed by the mechanism OID, followed by a four-byte token length
+ in big-endian order, followed by the mechanism token. This sequence
+ may be repeated multiple times.