"Mark Mielke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UNIX socket kernel credential passing was mentioned in an earlier post, but I > didn't see it raised again.
I mentioned getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED) which isn't the same as credential passing. It just tells you what uid is on the other end of your unix domain socket. I think it's much more widespread and portable than credential passing which was a BSD feature which allowed you to send along your kernel credentials to another process. So you could, for example, open a file in psql then pass the file descriptor to the backend to have the backend read directly from the file. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
