| From: | Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> |
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| To: | Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie(at)sable(dot)ox(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] pgsql/php3/apache authentication |
| Date: | 2000-04-28 08:09:25 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.02A.10004281005410.10804-100000@Uggla.DoCS.UU.SE |
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote:
> > There's no way for the server to determine the system user name of the
> > other end of a domain socket; at least no one has implemented one yet. So
> > essentially this isn't going to work.
>
> The client can pass an SCM_CREDENTIALS (Linux) or SCM_CREDS (BSDish)
> socket control message down the Unix domain socket and the kernel will
> fill in the client's credentials (including PID, uid and gid) for the
> receiver to read. Some Unices don't support this though.
This might be doable but I think I'd like to see exactly how many Unices
support this. I wouldn't be too excited about a solution that only works
on Linux and ???BSD (or any other combination). Is there any way one can
check?
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Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
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