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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jordan K Hubbard wrote:

> 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?

that was my thought.. the credential information passing must be useful
for something :-)

> 
> 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.
> --
> Jordan Hubbard
> Engineering Manager, BSD Technology Group
> Apple Computer
> 
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