Re: getpeereid() for Linux

From: Florian Weimer (Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 05:56:10 EST

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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> SO_PEERCRED doesn't need any cooperation from the other end (at least
> not for SOCK_STREAM)

Thanks. Over here, SO_PEERCRED is documented in socket(7). ;-)

> There is netfilter owner match, but it is a bad hack.

I certainly don't want to give a user process the right to add
netfilter rules dynamically. :-/

> I think you're better off with identd.

Or some /proc parsing (which is probably what identd does, too).

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