NAME
libnuclient - NUFW client authentication library
SYNOPSIS
#include <nuclient.h>
NuAuth * nu_client_init (const char *nptr, char *username, unsigned
long userid, char * password, char * hostname, unsigned int port,
char protocol, char ssl_on);
int nu_client_check (NuAuth * session);
void nu_client_free (NuAuth *session);
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the libnuclient library.
Use nu_client_init to initialize a authentication session. Then call
nu_client_check at regular interval to send authentication packet to
the gateway (if needed). When you’re finished, call nu_client_free to
free the session.
Original packaging and informations and help can be found from
http://www.nufw.org/
RETURN VALUE
nu_client_init returns an authentication session usable by
nu_client_check or nu_client_free.
nu_client_check returns the number of packets authenticated to the
nuauth server during the call. It returns -1 if an error occur when
sending authentication packet. Applications MUST considered that the
session is unusable when they receive this error.
ERRORS
nu_client_init return NULL it a problem occur during initiation
SEE ALSO
nuauth(8)
AUTHOR
Nufw was designed and coded by Eric Leblond, aka Regit (<regit@inl.fr>)
, and Vincent Deffontaines, aka gryzor (<vincent@inl.fr>). Original
idea in 2001, while working on NSM Ldap support.
This manual page was written by Eric Leblond
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 2 as
published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
12 mars 2007