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Re: Getting uid of connected user from daemon (possibly using kernel?)

Subject: Re: Getting uid of connected user from daemon (possibly using kernel?)
From: Michael Smith <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:18:39 -0700


On May 20, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Michael Smith wrote:

What you might want is a mediated attestation of the identity of the *software* running at the other end of the pipe. This is not a feature that is currently offered by MacOS X.

Whoops, I take that back. Look at the Leopard "Code Signing" feature. You may need to move from sockets to Mach messages to reap the full benefits of CS.

 = Mike

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