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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: d-bus head
From:       Havoc Pennington <hp () redhat ! com>
Date:       2003-10-31 18:59:37
Message-ID: 1067626777.18722.20.camel () localhost ! localdomain
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On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 13:12, Joe Shaw wrote:
> 
> The workaround seems to be that a client binds to some unix socket and
> the server does a stat() on it, but that's pretty sketchy, since on
> certain System V systems you can chown your files to other people.  SVR4
> has some ioctls for passing fds around, and those have credentials, but
> I don't know much about that.  Maybe it works on Solaris.

Hrm. Well, we could say "you have to use Kerberos" ;-)

Surely OS X has _some_ way to do this...

Havoc


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