UNIX credential passing

[Paul Rubin]

Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 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?

There is a patch for it attached to an RFE in the python bug tracker,
I forget which one.  Try searching for sendmsg or ancillary messages
or SCM_RIGHTS in the tracker.