Re: Unix sockets and authentication

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: 20 Feb 2004 03:38:53 GMT

passolo <passolo@polymtl.ca> writes:

>Hello,

>I am thinking switching an application from BSD sockets to Unix sockets because of their ability to authenticate (see SCM_CREDENTIALS) the user/process at the other end.

>The VERSION section of the man 7 unix page on Linux is a bit worrysome - it mentions portability problems. If anyone has insights and examples I would appreciate, as I have zero experience with.

FYI, There is a feature similar to this available
in Solaris Express http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/
(As documented in socket.h(3HEAD) and getpeerucred(3C); unfortunately,
at this time the only way to read the documentation is to
download the the whole SOlaris Express release)

Casper 

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