auth (kernel v10.3)
View SourceErlang network authentication server.
For a description of the Magic Cookie system, refer to Distributed Erlang in the Erlang Reference Manual.
Summary
Functions
Use erlang:get_cookie() in ERTS instead.
Use erlang:set_cookie(node(), Cookie) in ERTS
instead.
Returns yes if communication with Node is authorized.
Equivalent to node_cookie(Node, Cookie).
Sets the magic cookie of Node to Cookie and verifies the status of the
authorization.
Types
-type cookie() :: atom().
Functions
-spec cookie() -> Cookie when Cookie :: cookie().
Use erlang:get_cookie() in ERTS instead.
-spec cookie(TheCookie) -> true when TheCookie :: Cookie | [Cookie], Cookie :: cookie().
Use erlang:set_cookie(node(), Cookie) in ERTS
instead.
-spec is_auth(Node) -> yes | no when Node :: node().
Returns yes if communication with Node is authorized.
Use net_adm:ping(Node) instead.
Notice that a connection to Node is established in this case. Returns no if
Node does not exist or communication is not authorized (it has another cookie
than auth thinks it has).
Equivalent to node_cookie(Node, Cookie).
Sets the magic cookie of Node to Cookie and verifies the status of the
authorization.
Equivalent to calling erlang:set_cookie(Node, Cookie),
followed by auth:is_auth(Node).