[4545] in bugtraq
Re: UNIX domain socket (Solarisx86 2.5)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed May 21 22:24:02 1997
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:29:36 +0100
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
X-To: casper@HOLLAND.SUN.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199705210918.LAA29462@albano> from "Casper Dik" at May 21,
97 11:17:54 am
> That shouldn't really be a suprise; I'm actually more suprised that
> current BSD version do honor the permissions on Unix domain sockets;
> they weren't relevant in BSD 4.3 (SunOS 4.x) either.
Linux also honours them as 4.4BSD does - its a very useful property.
> Check <sys/tl.h>. First you'll need to switch on credentials exchanging
> w/ TL_IOC_CREDOPT and then you'll receive the credentials as options
> with the data.
Linux has a socket equivalent of this in 2.1.x. I'd like to see the BSD
people take it up too if someone wants to discuss it further..
