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From: peter@prefect.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Authenticating Unix Domain sockets.
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.063539.2169@objy.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 06:35:39 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@objy.com
Organization: Objectivity Inc.
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What I would like is a guaranteed way of finding out the uid of a process
that just connected to me using local (same machine) IPC.  I have vague memory
of special ioctl or connect argument that would give me the uid of the
connecting process when using Unix domain sockets.  But I have RTFM
(actually greped the man pages) and haven't found any sign of such a beast.

Normally I would have chalked this up to youthful hallucinations , but
I also didn't find the magic method to pass open file descriptors over
Unix domain sockets, and I KNOW that used to be in at least 4.3 BSD Unix.

So, does anyone know of such a beast?  Authentication of IPC of any
sort on almost any Unix would be of interest.
 

	Peter Moore
	Objectivity Inc.
	peter@objy.com