NAME
security_context_to_sid - Get a SID for a security context string
SYNOPSIS
#include <ss.h>
int security_context_to_sid(const security_context_t scontext, __u32 scontext_len, security_id_t *out_sid);
DESCRIPTION
The security_context_to_sid call is used to obtain a SID associated with the security context that has the string representation specified by scontext. The scontext_len parameter specifies the length of the string, including the terminating NULL character.
RETURN VALUE
A zero is returned on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
- EINVAL
-
The context was invalid.
- EACCES
-
The process is not authorized to invoke this call.
SEE ALSO
security_compute_av(2), security_sid_to_context(2), security_context_to_sid(2), security_transition_sid(2), security_member_sid(2), security_load_policy(2), security_notify_perm(2), security_get_sids(2)