SSPI security exit

IBM MQ for Windows supplies a security exit that provides authentication for IBM MQ channels by using the Security Services Programming Interface (SSPI). The SSPI provides the integrated security facilities of Windows.

This security exit is for both the IBM MQ client and the IBM MQ server.

The security packages are loaded from either security.dll or secur32.dll. These DLLs are supplied with your operating system.

One-way authentication is provided on Windows, using NTLM authentication services. Two-way authentication is provided on Windows 2000, using Kerberos authentication services.

The security exit program is supplied in source and object format. We can use the object code as it is, or we can use the source code as a starting point to create your own user-exit programs. For more information about using the object or source code of the SSPI security exit, see Use the SSPI security exit on Windows

Parent topic: Writing channel-exit programs