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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: New socket call suggestion
Message-ID: <1898@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 18:46:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 18:46:16 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:54:47 EST
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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> It occurs to me that it would be very useful to get the egid and euid
> of the process on the other end of a socket in order to implement socket
> protections on the server end. Has anyone done this or does anyone have a
> better idea?

Fine for AF_UNIX maybe, but what about Internet sockets?  There may
not even *be* a "user id" at the other end.
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