Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: getpeereid() for Linux | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | 05 Sep 2001 17:53:22 +0200 |
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Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> writes:
> It is not possible to get a creditential from TCP connections yet. That > requires an extension to IPSec to even be able to carry credentials. There > is no reliable communication path (even for identd) to be able to pass > credentials.
I need the credentials only for local connections, though. This is technically possible. A userspace implementation partially cloning ident seems to be a possible approach.
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