Hi,
El 6/8/26 a les 2:22, Roy Marples ha escrit:
Hurd lacks the means of authenticating a socket. ideally getpeereid(3)
should be supported as it's sockets are BSD centric
which would make my life easy.
Maybe I could work on adding getpeereid() to he Hurd. The approach would be:
1. Add a new op to the socket protocol, called socket_getpeereid:
```
routine socket_getpeereid (
sock: socket_t;
out euid: uid_t;
out egid: gid_t);
```
2. pflocal, modify `struct sock` to add to new fields:
```
/* Effective identity of the socket's peer, when connected. */
uid_t peer_uid;
gid_t peer_gid;
```
3. pflocal, on sock_connect, set the values:
```
sock1->peer_uid = sock2->uid;
sock1->peer_gid = sock2->gid;
```
And vice-versa
4. pflocal, implement the new op:
```
S_socket_getpeereid (struct sock_user *user, uid_t *euid, gid_t *egid)
{
...
}
```
Finally, I would need to define getpeereid() in glibc to call the new op
and mimic how BSD behaves.
Samuel, does the plan make sense? Is it something we want to do?
