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Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5)

From: alan () LXORGUK UKUU ORG UK (Alan Cox)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:29:36 +0100

That shouldn't really be a suprise; I'm actually more suprised that
current BSD version do honor the permissions on Unix domain sockets;
they weren't relevant in BSD 4.3 (SunOS 4.x) either.


Linux also honours them as 4.4BSD does - its a very useful property.

Check <sys/tl.h>.  First you'll need to switch on credentials exchanging
w/ TL_IOC_CREDOPT and then you'll receive the credentials as options
with the data.


Linux has a socket equivalent of this in 2.1.x. I'd like to see the BSD
people take it up too if someone wants to discuss it further..

Current thread:

UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5) Thamer Al-Herbish (May 17)
- Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5) Joel Murphy (May 20)
  - Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5) Casper Dik (May 21)
    - Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5) Vic Abell (May 21)
    - Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5) Alan Cox (May 21)
    - CERT Advisory CA-97.14 - Vulnerability in metamail Aleph One (May 21)
  - TrueBasic/Mac Bug Xservo (May 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5) Charles M. Hannum (May 21)