UNIX credential passing

[Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner]

[ Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> ]

> I want to make use of UNIX credential passing on a local domain socket
> to verify the identity of a user connecting to a privileged service.
> However it looks like the socket module doesn't implement
> sendmsg/recvmsg wrappers, and I can't find another module that does this
> either.  Is there something I have missed?

http://pyside.blogspot.com/2007/07/unix-socket-credentials-with-python.html

Illustrates, how to use socket credentials without sendmsg/recvmsg and so
without any need for patching.


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