QuerySecurityPackageInfo

The QuerySecurityPackageInfo function retrieves information about a specified security package. This information includes the bounds on sizes of authentication information, credentials, and contexts.

SECURITY_STATUS QuerySecurityPackageInfo(
  SEC_CHAR *pszPackageName,    // name of package
  PSecPkgInfo *ppPackageInfo   // receives package information
);

Parameters

pszPackageName

[in] Pointer to a NULL-terminated string that specifies the name of the security package.

ppPackageInfo

[out] Pointer to a variable that receives a pointer to a SecPkgInfo structure containing information about the specified security package.

Return Values

If the function succeeds, the return value is SEC_E_OK.

If the function fails, the return value is a nonzero error code.

Remarks

The caller must call the FreeContextBuffer function to free the buffer returned in ppPackageInfo.

The prototype for this function can be found in Sspi.h.

Requirements

  Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows NT 3.51 or later.
  Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later.
  Header: Declared in Sspi.h; include Security.h.
  Library: Use Secur32.lib.
  Unicode: Implemented as Unicode and ANSI versions on Windows NT/2000.

See Also

FreeContextBuffer, SecPkgInfo