[ Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > I want to make use of UNIX credential passing on a local domain socket > to verify the identity of a user connecting to a privileged service. > However it looks like the socket module doesn't implement > sendmsg/recvmsg wrappers, and I can't find another module that does this > either. Is there something I have missed?
http://pyside.blogspot.com/2007/07/unix-socket-credentials-with-python.html Illustrates, how to use socket credentials without sendmsg/recvmsg and so without any need for patching. -- Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. (Rosa Luxemburg) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list