Re: Getting PID of a unix domain socket client
Re: Getting PID of a unix domain socket client
- Subject: Re: Getting PID of a unix domain socket client
- From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:05:31 -0800
On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Terry Lambert wrote:
If you were intending to make security decisions, that's probaly not
useful, since you can't trust the other end to be who they say they
are, based on the PID: it's not a security identifier.
Actually, this is what the assume credential by PID interface was for,
but it requires a privileged process to use (for obvious reasons).
= Mike
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