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How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 24 2006 06:11PM
rainmailbox2001-ola yahoo ca (6 replies)

Re: Secure client/server file processing (was: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection) Nov 29 2006 07:49PM
Michael T. Babcock (mike triplepc com) (1 replies)

Re: Secure client/server file processing (was: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection) Nov 30 2006 10:03PM
Greg Metcalfe (metcalfegreg qwest net)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 28 2006 02:31AM
Greg Metcalfe (metcalfegreg qwest net)

RE: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 27 2006 08:48PM
Bond Masuda (bond masuda jlbond com)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 27 2006 08:23PM
druid stonedcoder org

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 27 2006 08:06PM
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange nsk no-ip org) (1 replies)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 28 2006 05:17PM
Filipe Varela (fcv dev6 com) (3 replies)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 29 2006 08:57PM
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange nsk no-ip org) (1 replies)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 30 2006 06:02PM
Filipe Varela (fcv dev6 com) (2 replies)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Dec 01 2006 11:31PM
Glynn Clements (glynn gclements plus com)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Dec 01 2006 09:38PM
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha (strange nsk no-ip org)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 29 2006 08:13PM
Glynn Clements (glynn gclements plus com)

Filipe Varela wrote:

> >> Anyways, I would prefer to stick with TCP/UDP, because this is
> >> what my
> >> programs use already, and I don't really want to change
> >> everything to
> >> Unix sockets (unless of course Unix sockets are the only good way to
> >> resolve my problems).
>
> I don't want to go off-topic but i have an important question. Isn't
> a socket a concept that translates an address and port? How would
> someone go about doing tcp/udp without sockets when they both depend
> on address/port mappings which are _literally_ sockets?
>
> Am i wrong?

I think that you misunderstood.

By "Unix sockets", he was referring to using Unix-domain sockets
(AF_LOCAL) rather than TCP/IP sockets (AF_INET).

Unix-domain sockets have the advantage that you can obtain the
identity (PID, UID, GID) of the peer from the OS.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn (at) gclements.plus (dot) com [email concealed]>

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Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 29 2006 07:24PM
Vladimir Mitiouchev (vovcia gmail com)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 27 2006 08:06PM
Vladimir Mitiouchev (vovcia gmail com) (2 replies)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 29 2006 06:29AM
Greg Metcalfe (metcalfegreg qwest net)

Re: How to check UID of process on the other side of local TCP/UDP connection Nov 28 2006 05:05PM
Michael Bacarella (mbac netgraft com)