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Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On August 19, 2011 07:01:33 AM Gauthier, Dave wrote:
>> Is there a way to get the linux idsid of a user, even for a remote network
>> connection?

> There's an identd protocol for this. It's not commonly used anymore, and when
> present tends to deliberately obscure the results. 

Not to mention that it's trivially faked, if the user has root on his
own machine.

			regards, tom lane

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