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Subject: Re: IPC nsswitch implementation
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Why not use a UNIX domain socket as the transport and then use 
credential passing to pass the credentials lookupd should use to do the 
lookup?

On Mar 5, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Michael Bushkov wrote:

> When you're
> using current nss-modules they work as part of your program - and 
> geteuid functions
> work correctly. But when lookupd is used, euid of the process is 
> lookupds' euid.
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Jordan Hubbard
Engineering Manager, BSD Technology Group
Apple Computer