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Re: getpeercred() on the Hurd



At Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:56:53 +0100,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Well, I guess he doesn't have a running Hurd system.
> 
> Actually I guess we could easily add SO_PASSCRED to pflocal sockets, by
> using auth_user_authenticate/auth_server_authenticate indeed.

The problem is which credentials: remember a Hurd process has have
many UIDs and GUIDs.  This decision is context dependent.

Neal


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