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1.1       root        1: .TH "AUTH_GETFIRSTAUTH" 3 "29-Dec-86" "Xerox (WRC)"
                      2: .\" $Header: authlookup.n,v 1.1 87/01/15 16:48:08 ed Exp $
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: Auth_GetFirstAuth
                      5: \- Locate an Authentication service.
                      6: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      7: .PP
                      8: .nf
                      9: .B "#include <sys/types.h>             /* used by ns.h */"
                     10: .B "#include <netns/ns.h>              /* for sockaddr_ns */"
                     11: .B "#include <xnscourier/courier.h>"
                     12: .B "#include <xnscourier/courierconnection.h>"
                     13: .PP
                     14: .B "CourierConnection *Auth_GetFirstAuth()"
                     15: .f
                     16: .PP
                     17: Link with
                     18: .IR "-lcourier" .
                     19: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     20: The routine
                     21: .I Auth_GetFirstAuth
                     22: returns an XNS Courier connection to a nearby Authentication service, useful
                     23: for Authentication remote procedure calls.
                     24: .I Xnsbfs 
                     25: is used to perform a broadcast for Authentication servers, the results of
                     26: which are then used to open a Courier connection. If no Authentication servers
                     27: respond to the broadcast or a connection cannot be established to a service,
                     28: NULL is returned.
                     29: .SH NOTES
                     30: A CourierConnection is an anonymous data structure used by the
                     31: runtimes.  Users should not dereference pointers to CourierConnection
                     32: themselves.
                     33: .SH FILES
                     34: /usr/local/lib/libcourier.a            -lcourier library.
                     35: .SH SEE ALSO
                     36: xnsbfs(1N)
                     37: .br
                     38: ``XNS Courier Under Unix''
                     39: .br
                     40: Authentication Protocol, \s8XSIS\s0 098404 (April 1984).
                     41: .SH AUTHOR
                     42: Ed Flint
                     43: 

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