[Tutor] User identification and running in the background.

[Wesley Brooks]

Cheers, I'll consider that. So the client would effectively hand shake
with the lower level program and be supplied with a list of
permissions which the user has access to.

You mentioned about many systems being multi-user. When the client
attempts to connect to the lower machine is it a trivial issue to
either supply information on what user the attempt is coming from
within the initial communication, or for the low level program to
identify where/who the request is coming from?

Thanks,

Wesley Brooks.

On 13/12/06, Tor Hildrum <torhildrum at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Tim Golden <Tim.Golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > But this is all quite Win32-specific (as well as
> > being hand-wavingly unspecific). I don't know
> > how you'd go about it on *nix but I bet it's nothing
> > like the same.
>
> The same general principle applies. You need to get a
> UID or similar from a specific user, or you have to
> check all connected TTYs and just pick a random user
> out of the users logged in. Most systems today are
> multi-user so the notion of 'the user logged in' doesn't
> make sense system-wide.
>
> I think the best way to solve this is to use a client-server
> approach. Have a deamon/service run in the background,
> and then have a client started at login that pings the server
> and notifies it of your presence.
>
> Tor
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