On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:41:19PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > 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. That was not the goal. The point was that what you appear to be trying to do maps directly onto the existing uid/gid security. Alan -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
