Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:22:15 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPC nsswitch implementation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403060021310.15852-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <C4A87CD6-6F2F-11D8-9274-0003930F2856@queasyweasel.com>
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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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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