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From: hakimian@tek4.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: can you make a unix socket secure?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 16:14:14 GMT
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I need to know how to secure a unix socket. That is I need to be able to tell
who is connecting to it so that I can close the socket if I don't want to talk
to a particular person. How is this done? With inet sockets you can check to
make sure that the socket was opened on a reserved port is there anything like
this for unix sockets?

Please reply with email. If this is not a dumb question and people are interested
I will post a summery. Thanks