Re: Heads up for login managers

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On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:36 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> We use a cookie called "uid" and one called "gid". 

The problem is that these are not per-session; am not sure why that is
so difficult to understand.

> >  4. Privileged processes, like ConsoleKit daemon, can read the cookie
> 
> Yes. When a message is sent via unix domain sockets the cookie is made
> available to the recipient solely for checking.

No reason to be patronizing and assuming that I'd forget UNIX 101.

     David


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