HP Open Source Security for OpenVMS Volume 3: Kerberos > Chapter 6 KRB5 (Kerberos V5) Application Programming Interface

krb5_decode_ticket — Decode a formatted ticket

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C Prototype

krb5_error_code krb5_decode_ticket (
        const krb5_data         *code,
        krb5_ticket             **rep );

Arguments

code (input)		The formatted ticket.
rep (output)		The decoded ticket information.

Description

This routine takes a formatted ticket code and decodes it, filling in rep with the results.

The contents of rep are set to allocated storage that should be freed by the caller (using krb5_free_ticket) when finished with the ticket.

Return Values

This routine returns the following KRB5 status codes:

0	Successful completion.
KRB5KDC_ERR_BAD_PVNO	Bad key version number.