Heads up for login managers
David Zeuthen
davidz at redhat.com
Mon Feb 12 18:41:19 UTC 2007
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.
David
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