Function bufferToString

src/Access/GSSAcceptor.cpp:46–59

#if USE_KRB5

String bufferToString(const gss_buffer_desc & buf)
{
    // Copy the GSS buffer verbatim. Do not strip trailing NULs: some callers (notably
    // output_token_buf from gss_accept_sec_context, which carries an encrypted AP-REP in
    // SPNEGO) pass opaque binary data where trailing 0x00 bytes are meaningful. Display
    // strings from gss_display_status / gss_display_name have buf.length excluding the
    // NUL terminator on MIT krb5 and Heimdal, so no trimming is needed there either.
    String str;

    if (buf.length > 0 && buf.value != nullptr)
        str.assign(static_cast<char *>(buf.value), buf.length);

    return str;
}

namespace
{